<< My memory is failing. :( >> I hate to kick a man when he's down Hans --- but shouldn't this have read ONE + ONE + ONE + ONE + ONE = FOUR + ONE = FIVE ?? [If Hunter published it as posted, maybe he indeed did you a favour by omitting the attribution!] Fred Lunnon On 4/14/13, Hans Havermann <gladhobo@teksavvy.com> wrote:
I wrote:
I rarely see such attributions to cryptarithms, which may be a good thing. I once mailed one of mine (ONE + ONE + ONE + ONE = FOUR + ONE = FIVE) to J.A.H. Hunter only to find it some time later in the Journal of Recreational Mathematics as one of his!
My memory is failing. :(
My alphametic was published in JRM under my name and appeared without attribution some time later in Hunter's column. The letter I mailed to Mr. Hunter was to complain. _______________________________________________ math-fun mailing list math-fun@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/math-fun