"Avi Gross" <avigr...@verizon.net> writes: > SYNOPSIS: One way to solve math puzzle by brute force. (message sent earlier > disappeared) > > > > Quick note. Jack started by asking why python does not like decimal > numbers with leading zeroes. When asked to explain, he said he was > trying to solve word problems using python. Someone mentioned problems > like solving SEND + MORE = MONEY and I decided to quickly write a > function that would solve anything of that sort that only has addition > on either side of the equals. > > > > What amused me was that I had 25 solutions to the above when I was > told there would be one. Closer examination showed that 24 of those > had the ‘M’ in MONEY set to zero which the logicians claimed was not a > sensible solution.
What amuses me is the solution to the problem that started the whole thread had at least one number with a leading 0. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
