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Solution to the Math Challenge Problem:

Extra Cryptic Cryptarithmetic

Challenge: Find all bases for which the cryptarithmetic puzzle TOO + TOO = FOR has
a unique solution
Solution: The winning submission comes again from Josiah Smalley. In the solution (given
below), Josiah assumed each letter could be any digit, including 0. Traditionally, the first
letter of each word in a cryptarithmetic cannot be zero, but this was not stated explicitly
in the challenge.
If you allow T = 0 as part of the solution, then the only bases which given unique solutions
are 4 and 5. If T 1 is required, this bumps up the bases to 6 and 7.

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