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Sunday Times Teaser 2697 – Gimme Five!

by Andrew Skidmore

In the following numbers, each digit has been consistently replaced by a different letter:

THREE FIVE EIGHT NINE TEN ELEVEN THIRTEEN

The sum of the digits in each number is a multiple, greater than one, of the number described by its word form.

What number does FIVE represent?

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    • brian gladman permalink

      Here is a version that speeds up Geoff’s version by doing the permutations progressively rather than all at once at the beginning:

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