posted 17 years ago
I translated this to
Solutions are [71][17]8954632 (a-i).
Most Multiplications get greater than 9 (3*4) so I started there.
1*x is smaller than 10 for every x in (1-9), but would lead to
1*x = x and that's impossible.
h*i=g and i*f=c don't have g or c on the left side.
Therefore h,i,f must be at least 2.
Since 2*5 is 10, every multiplication is too big if a 5(or bigger) and no 1 is involved.
2*3 and 2*4 are the only candidates, which is consistent to our problem: i occures two times and is therefore 2.
h and f are 3 or 4.
Therefore c is 6 or 8 and g is 6 or 8.
If f is 3 or 4, we only have 1,7 and 9 left for d.
But e+f=d, therefore d must be greater than f, which might be 7 or 9.
If d would be 7, e would need to be 3 or 4, which is impossible, since f or h are 3 and 4.
d = 9.
e+ (3,4) = 9 => e:={6, 5}, but since g is 6 or c is 6, e=5 and therefore f=4.
For a and b we have 1 and 7 left, which leads concluent to c=8.
But whether a or b are 1 or 7 is not decideable.
To verify my assumption I elegantly skipped the possibility to create a permutation, and let Random poof my assumption: