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2017-12-07

Should I worry one of my 3 digit answers contains a zero?

Neal
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2017-12-07

@Neal: No, there may be zeroes in the three digit numbers (but you can discard these when solving the final logic puzzle as there are no zeros in the answer to that).

Matthew
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