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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!channel1![eliot.gelwan@channel1.com]
  2. From: "eliot gelwan" <eliot.gelwan@channel1.com>
  3. Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
  4. Subject: new year's problem
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan3.1584.7544@channel1>
  6. Date: 3 Jan 93 23:50:47 EST
  7. Reply-To: "eliot gelwan" <eliot.gelwan@channel1.com>
  8. Distribution: rec
  9. Organization: Channel 1 Communications
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  12. M»for 1987, it seems you're looking for a year in which it's
  13. M»possible to expressthe date and time using the digits 0-9
  14. M»exactly once - this first happened in 198on February 3 at 4:56
  15. M»AM.  2/3/1987 04:56
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  17. M»So it seems this isn't *really* a valid answer to the 1987/2013
  18. M»puzzle.  Anyoneelse care to offer a "better" solution?
  19.  
  20. I think what he's looking for is simply a year where all the
  21. digits are unique. You're complicating things too much.
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