A challenge from the Mensa Puzzle Calendar
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Thu Oct 3 17:04:30 EDT 2002
> I'm a puzzle kind of guy, so I thought some of you might be, too.
> I'd be very curious to see the kind of solutions people come up with.
> My solution ended up being a total of 19 lines of code, including a
> print statement to give me a nice formatted output for each solution,
> resembling the initial problem from the calendar.
>
> OK, folks. The gauntlet is down. Have at it!
for a in range(700,800):
for b in range(100):
digits = list('%d%d%d' % (a, b, a*b))
digits.sort()
if digits == list('0123456789'):
print '%5d\n%5d\n-----\n%5d' % (a, b, a*b)
Raymond Hettinger
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