Internet Math Challenge

Deadline for solutions: Friday, 14 November 2003

Strange Arithmetic!

The addition problem below looks wrong, but it's actually correct. The secret is that each alphabet letter actually stands for a digit. The letter O does not necessarily represent the number zero, but we will insist that the leading digit in a multi-digit number should not be zero. (So neither T, F, nor E can be zero.) Discover which letters represent which digits to make the addition correct.

There are actually four correct answers. You need only find one of them, but if you want an extra challenge, try to find them all!


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