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| Jan 26 at 17:22 | comment | added | Chris | Except that the question declares there is a maximum to find which means that we can't be considering complex numbers. Otherwise I'd be more than happy for you to extend the logic that way if you wanted! I will note though that my comment was just an amusing consideration. If I thought it was actually a serious response to the question I'd have added it as an answer and not a comment. | |
| Jan 26 at 16:18 | comment | added | Idran | @Chris Extending that logic, though, there is no maximum at all, since E could be a complex number and there is no total order over the complex numbers. | |
| Jan 26 at 10:19 | comment | added | Chris | Honestly I didn't think that was any more lateral thinking than that they didn't have to be distinct. In these sorts of puzzles I have never seen the letters not be distinct (though I may not have a large dataset to work with) so I didn't think them not being integers was any weirder than them not being distinct. | |
| Jan 25 at 18:21 | vote | accept | Ronchen Luo | ||
| Jan 25 at 11:25 | comment | added | justhalf | @Chris that's a lateral thinking reading of the question, haha. Nice one. Probably better phrased as "positive integers, not necessarily distinct" | |
| Jan 25 at 10:45 | comment | added | Chris | Since they don't have to be integers can E be 5-epsilon and then the max is 10000-2*epsilon. Its a bit weird for these kinds of puzzles but given the question explicitly says they don't have to be distinct positive integers it seems that considering non-integers is fair... | |
| Jan 25 at 10:01 | comment | added | justhalf | E+E in the last digits of AWE+SOME means MATH is even. The highest even 4-digit number is 9998. That's why Daniel put it as trivial. | |
| Jan 25 at 7:46 | comment | added | Ivo | Maybe it's just me, but I wouldn't just simply say that it's trivial. I think this answer would improve if you explained the steps to get the trivial solution. | |
| Jan 25 at 0:07 | history | answered | Daniel Mathias | CC BY-SA 4.0 |