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Challenge #239: SEND + MORE = MONEY

RobbieA
8 - Asteroid

Started a macro but got lost, brute forced instead. Ended up with 25 results if you include leading 0's, 1 result without.

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Had split to my appends up with filters for duplicate letters to prevent laptop exploding. 

FinnCharlton
13 - Pulsar
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love a brute force solve 

kristiadiuisan
8 - Asteroid
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alexnajm
16 - Nebula
16 - Nebula

Difficult

bjkay30
8 - Asteroid

My solution.

 

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alacoume
8 - Asteroid

A solution:

leonhekkert
8 - Asteroid

Brute force for me I'm afraid:

 

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mithily
8 - Asteroid
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brute force followed the data to its logical conclusion
tristank
11 - Bolide

I know as soon as I see the two tool solutions I'm gonna rip my hair out.

 

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ed_hayter
12 - Quasar
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Spent a long time a few weeks ago looking at algorithmically trying to solve this with no luck. Next I looked into bruteforcing and my logic was sound but I did not want to wait around explode the data and contract and set up each individual filter correctly.

Turned to the R tool and a bit of help from ChatGPT to write a script that did what I wanted in terms of generating all combinations testing them and returning correct solutions then used a find and replace to get the output.

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Edit R-Tool section of the flow took 8 minutes to run - for people who want to write more efficient code.