Re: Enigma 1512 - All square

On Nov 9, 6:49 pm, Chappy <petergregorychap...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Enigma 1512 - All square
New Scientist magazine, 20 September 2008.
By Susan Denham.

I started with a list of numbers.  Then I
coded them using letters for digits, with
different letters consistently used for
different digits.  In this way the list
became:

        ARE  ANY  NOS  HERE  SQUARE

If you knew how many of the original numbers
were square, then it would be possible to
find all the numbers.  Please send in the
number that is YOURS.

Ciao,
Chappy.

SPOILER

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If 0-3 of the numbers are squares, there are multiple solutions, for
example:
2 squares - 364 3?? ??1 8464 195364
3 squares - 169 1?? ??5 3969 582169

If 4 of the numbers are squares, there is one solution:
729 784 816 5929 603729

There are no solutions with all 5 numbers being squares.

Thus YOURS is 41326.



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