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Started a macro but got lost, brute forced instead. Ended up with 25 results if you include leading 0's, 1 result without.
Had split to my appends up with filters for duplicate letters to prevent laptop exploding.
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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.
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.
Edit R-Tool section of the flow took 8 minutes to run - for people who want to write more efficient code.
