From: utzoo!decvax!cca!hplabs!menlo70!sytek!zehntel!teklabs!tekid!rolf@sri-unix Newsgroups: net.math Title: ABCDE author's comments Article-I.D.: tekid.184 Posted: Mon Jul 19 08:42:36 1982 Received: Sun Jul 25 01:09:00 1982 It is too bad that some people felt that the ABCDE puzzle was too trivial to post, but I'm afraid that if I posted a harder problem I would quickly lose the attention of the hard-core hackers. As was recognized by ...alice!npoiv!npois!cbosgd!nscs!jpj, the problem was intended to get people thinking, *not* to be a race to see who can finish first. Someone did think, and generalized the answer to fit any number of digits. I for one would rather see so called *trivial* problems rather than none at all. Rolf Anderson ...teklabs!tekid!rolf