March 2009
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Because February's challenge was very difficult, we postponed the submission deadline by a month and we'll post the solution on April 1st. In the meantime, here is a more straightforward challenge:
There are several simultaneous solutions for the following two exercises (the second is a 90-degree rotation of the first):
a b c g d a + + d e f h e b ===== ===== g h i i f c
One of them is
5 8|3 | 1 4|6 ===+= 7 2|9
Our challenge is to find a similar exercise in hexadecimal.
One can prove that a 4x4 is insolvable, so we added a few zeros and ask you to fit all 15 nonzero hexadecimal digits in
abcde mjfa
+ fghi0 nkgb
jk00l + 00hc
===== 00id
mn00o ====
ol0e
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Challenge:
02/27/2009 @ 03:30 PM EST
Solution:
04/01/2009 @ 09:00 AM EST
List Updated:
03/24/2009 @ 01:00 PM EST
People who answered correctly:
Gary M. Gerken (02/28/2009 12:51 AM EDT)
Peter Mattsson (02/28/2009 01:42 PM EDT)
Ioan Marius Popdan (02/28/2009 08:26 PM EDT)
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