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Modern Puzzles by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $72$
- Alphabetical Sums
- There is a family resemblance between puzzles where an arithmetical working has to be reconstructed from a few figures and a number of asterisks,
- and those in which every digit is represented by a letter,
- but they are really quite different.
- The resemblance lies in the similarity of the process of solving.
- Here is a little example of the latter class.
- It can hardly be called difficult.
RSR ------ PR)MTVVR MVR --- KKV KMD --- MVR MVR ---
- Can you reconstruct this simple division sum?
- Every digit is represented by a different letter.
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Sources
- 1926: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Modern Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Digital Puzzles: $72$. -- Alphabetical Sums
- 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Cryptarithm Puzzles: $151$. Alphabetical Sums