On 10/12/18 11:16, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 9:11 PM Antoon Pardon <antoon.par...@vub.be> wrote: >> On 10/12/18 11:03, Chris Angelico wrote: >>> Considering that, in a problem of that description, neither S nor M >>> may represent zero, I don't think there's a problem here. >> Not all such problems have that condition. > They should. Every published set of problems that I've ever solved by > hand has. I went searching online for some, and found this page: > > http://puzzlepicnic.com/genre?alphametic > > which clearly states that exact restriction.
Why should they? Is this some holy restriction a puzzle maker has to follow on pain of excommunication somehow? Not all replacement puzzles are alphametic puzzles. -- Antoon. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list