03 digression by brute force

[Joe Pfeiffer]

"Avi Gross" <avigross at verizon.net> writes:

> SYNOPSIS: One way to solve math puzzle by brute force. (message sent earlier disappeared)
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> Quick note. Jack started by asking why python does not like decimal
> numbers with leading zeroes. When asked to explain, he said he was
> trying to solve word problems using python. Someone mentioned problems
> like solving SEND + MORE = MONEY and I decided to quickly write a
> function that would solve anything of that sort that only has addition
> on either side of the equals.
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> What amused me was that I had 25 solutions to the above when I was
> told there would be one. Closer examination showed that 24 of those
> had the ‘M’ in MONEY set to zero which the logicians claimed was not a
> sensible solution.

What amuses me is the solution to the problem that started the whole
thread had at least one number with a leading 0.