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2018-12-16

The script for checking the answers doesn't work properly

Carmel
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2018-12-17

@Carmel: It's not meant to check your answers. It only shows up red if the number you enter cannot be split into valid pairs (eg the number has an odd number of digits or one of the pairs of digits is greater than 20).

Matthew
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