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dc.contributor.authorKribs, Christopher
dc.date.accessioned2016-05-26T16:38:06Z
dc.date.available2016-05-26T16:38:06Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.identifier.citationPublished in Math Horizons 13(4):12-13, April 2006en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10106/25678
dc.descriptionAuthor's final draft after peer review, also known as post print.en_US
dc.description.abstractOne of the most significant conceptual jumps involved in algebra is the use of letters (and other symbols) to represent numbers. One way to get students used to this notion is via puzzles. This paper describes a generalization of one such puzzle, based on a terse telegraph message from impoverished college student to parents — “SEND MORE MONEY” — and well-known in some mathematical circles (a December 2001 web search turned up over two dozen hits). In this type of puzzle, which has been termed alphametics, each word is associated to a number with as many digits as there are letters, and each letter is associated with a distinct digit, 0 through 9. A puzzle solution identifies which digit corresponds to each of the letters.en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherMathematical Association of Americaen_US
dc.subjectAlphametricsen_US
dc.titleSENDing MORE MONEY in any baseen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Mathematics, University of Texas at Arlington
dc.identifier.externalLinkhttp://www.jstor.org/stable/25678617
dc.identifier.externalLinkDescriptionThe original publication is available at the journal homepage.


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