Looks to me like the puzzle in question is "ONE + ONE + ONE + ONE = FOUR and FOUR + ONE = FIVE". Jim Propp On Friday, April 19, 2013, Hans Havermann <gladhobo@teksavvy.com> wrote:
I noticed the failure of my memory reconstruction unit when I came across a Google book reference to my problem in Stanley Rabinowitz and Mark Bowron's Index to Mathematical Problems, 1975-1979, page 258. Presumably to save space, ONE + ONE + ONE + ONE = FOUR + ONE = FIVE is how it is printed in there, but I assure you that is not how I posed the problem, nor is it how the Journal of Recreational Mathematics published it:
http://chesswanks.com/pot/alphametic.png
On Apr 19, 2013, at 7:41 PM, Fred lunnon <fred.lunnon@gmail.com> wrote:
<< My memory is failing. :( >>
I hate to kick a man when he's down Hans --- but shouldn't this have read
ONE + ONE + ONE + ONE + ONE = FOUR + ONE = FIVE ??
[If Hunter published it as posted, maybe he indeed did you a favour by omitting the attribution!]
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