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#75 Letters and numbers
Set by Christopher Dearlove
Let each letter have a value, where the vowels A, E, I, O and U have value zero and all other letter values are whole numbers greater than zero. The value of a word is the sum of the values of its letters. A word that represents a number is “self-describing” if its value is that number. For example, ONE is self-describing if ONE = 1, for which we must have N = 1.
If TWO and THREE are also self-describing, which other letters can we find the values of?
If we continue with…
