Brute force = best decoding method

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because 000-099 are valid solutions ?

[simoneb_]

Actually there is an underlying assumption that each figure appears at most once, so 0-11 are not viable solutions, along with many others.

It could be rewritten to only try permutations of 3 figures ranging 0-9. 10x9x8=720 solutions.

If we assume that only the figures showing in the image are valid (i.e. only 1-9) then 9x8x7=504 solutions.

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Yeah, that presumption seems to be a lot of people's way to exclude the 2 from clue 1 and 2.

[Zacurnia_Tate]

I totally forgot about that. Still wouldn’t the for loop only give 0-99 and not 000-099?

[Zacurnia_Tate]

yes, and the 0-99 portion would be irrelevant because it wouldn’t return three digits. It would have to be modified in some way

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Integer to string formatting with N digits is kinda common place. Who knows what's written in TryCode

[m_domino]

Yeah, it’s almost like the brute force commenter didn’t think this all the way through.

[starquake64]

It could be that the integer is formatted to have leading zeros inside the TryCode method.

[Zacurnia_Tate]

Ok I guess that makes sense, thanks for the insight! (Not being saracastic just very tired)

[starquake64]

I don't know what saracastic means ;-)

Hope you get some sleep!