Dan Waters
dwaters at usinternet.com
Wed Sep 21 15:01:28 CDT 2005
Gustav, You need to go to www.brownies.com to see where you can buy the hard-won rewards! -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 2:14 PM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Friday entertainment Hi John That's correct! However, the method may not be the most elegant so no chocolate rewards ... /gustav >>> John.Clark at niagaracounty.com 21-09-2005 20:57 >>> >As a bonus for Susan, here's one you actually can sit down an calculate >on a piece of paper - or create a For/Next loop on the computer to do >the dirty work: >U, V, X, Y, and Z represent five different digits. Find these to >satisfy the formula: >UVXYZ * 4 = ZYXVU >/gustav 21978 21978 * 4 = 87912 I narrowed it down to a min (02513) and max (24987) and then popped it into Excel. I had to include zeros, because you hadn't mentioned them. And, by using consecutive letters, it sort of makes you think of consecutive digits as well...clouds the thought process at first. If there are any chocolate rewards, I'll donate them to Susan...I'm getting fat enough already. -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com