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2020-12-11

Hi Matthew

If I'm wrong, don't bother to answer, but I suspect there might be an error in the wording of Number 11.
I don't think it's possible to solve it right now.

Cheers

Moss
on /blog/86

2020-12-11

@Moss: You were correct: as you were writing this, I was correcting the puzzle. It should now be correct

Matthew
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