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H. E. Dudeney, Amusements in Mathematics (1917) No. 13 · Puzzles · Money puzzles

A New Money Puzzle

The largest sum of money that can be written in pounds, shillings, pence, and farthings, using each of the nine digits once and only once, is £98,765, 4s. 3½d. Now, try to discover the smallest sum of money that can be written down under precisely the same conditions. There must be some value given for each denomination--pounds, shillings, pence, and farthings--and the nought may not be used. It requires just a little judgment and thought.

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H. E. Dudeney, Amusements in Mathematics (1917) · No. 13

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