If you have just read ‘A little problem for the holidays…‘
The clue is to stop thinking about the Maths and find your inner child!
Let’s reorder the numbers, does that help?
Why has 8809 been assigned a value 6 and 0000 a value 4?
What about all the numbers assigned a value of zero?
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The value assigned to 2581 should be 2 as there are two closed loops!
I did it simply canceiling the numbers and finding its values!
Ex : 2222 = 0 this means 2=0
5555 = 0 this means 5=0
9999 = 4 meaning 9 = 1
0000 = 4 meaning 0 = 1
So we got 8809 = 6 as 0 and 9 stands for 1 leaving us with 4 = 8 mening 8 = 2
2581 = 0+0+2+0 —> 2581 = 2
Very neat Luis!
Great way to learn math.