Our good friend and numerologist, Professor Euclide Paracelso Bombasto Umbugio, has been busily engaged in testing on his desk calculator the 81x109 possible solutions to the problem of reconstrucing the following exact long division in which the digits were indiscriminately replaced by X save in the quotient where they were almost entirely omitted:
Deflate the Professor! That is, reduce the possibilities to (81x109)0.
Because any number raised to the power of zero is one, the reader's task is to discover the unique reconstruction of the problem. The 8 is in the correct position above the line, making it the third digit of a five-digit answer. The problem is easier than it looks, yielding readily to a few elementary insights.
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Our good friend and numerologist, Professor Euclide Paracelso Bombasto Umbugio, has been busily engaged in testing on his desk calculator the 81x109 possible solutions to the problem of reconstrucing the following exact long division in which the digits were indiscriminately replaced by X save in the quotient where they were almost entirely omitted:
Deflate the Professor! That is, reduce the possibilities to (81x109)0.
Because any number raised to the power of zero is one, the reader's task is to discover the unique reconstruction of the problem. The 8 is in the correct position above the line, making it the third digit of a five-digit answer. The problem is easier than it looks, yielding readily to a few elementary insights.
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