November 20–November 26, 2007

Problem

A vexatious problem: each letter below stands for a different nonzero digit. What are the numbers?

sqrt(VEXATIOUS) = EEAAO

Solution

here.

List of solvers

Michael Draper, Ian Zemke, Adrian Bernard (undergraduate); Dustin Moody, Aneesh Hariharan, Jacob Lewis, Gary Raymond (graduate); Frederick Boehm (postdoc); Marina Meila (faculty); Rich Bauer (alum); Navdeep Jaitly, Mattia Landoni (outside the UW).

Ian Zemke wins the prize!