New Scientist

[vhayes]

To the Resident, The house with a number whose digits when multiplied together give five times what they sum to, Long Road

[bobbinwales]

275 is the number.... but don't get the rest

[bobbinwales]

Or 345 or 354

[bobbinwales]

Or 435 or 453 or 543 or 534
Or 572 or 527 or 752 or 725

[bobbinwales]

I guess the long road means it could be a big number.
I tried 4 digits and got to 8521 or any combination of them 4 digits.
Too tired to try 5 digits.
There must be some more to this????

[bobbinwales]

ok tried digits

11259 or any order for them 5 digits like 92511 or 52191

or 11355 or any combo of them digits like 53151

I give up! All excel'd out

[TheWinner]

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25734262-600-puzzle-209-can-you-work-out-how-many-houses-there-are-on-long-road/ googled, but can't get any further.

[vhayes]

Thank u all, 345 seems best

[bobbinwales]

Can't see it being that. It's no morr valid than the others and don't explain the long road..maybe look at 6 digits maybe there's only one answer in that range

[bobbinwales]

Ah I see there's more to the question you asked. The bit about it the only house with this number property. So 345 is this house. But could go up to353 as 354 not allowed. But does answer depend on odds and evens too...

[bobbinwales]

Isn't it 257 as that's the first to match the rule

[bobbinwales]

It does say its the end house.
It's allways best to include all the details. Would of saved me writing a massive spreadsheet up to 99999 lines.
We can't see the full question on the winners link...are you able to paste in the full question

[bobbinwales]

I'll sign off now as it's just me and gummy spammers this morning

[TheWinner]

https://enigmaticcode.wordpress.com/

[TheWinner]

scroll down past the adverts.

[TheWinner]

well done bobbinwales.

[bobbinwales]

Thanks for the full link thewinner. Unlike that person I didn't use python....whatever it is.