ALPHANUMERICS AND SOLUTIONS (9) by T. Yau. student, Pima Community College Prove that if N ;: 0 there are neither an operation" • " nor integers replacing the letters, for wnicn the following statement: SMARANOACHE FUNCTION - IN = NUMBERTHEORY is available. Solution: Of course" • " may not be an addition. because in that case ·5" (as a digit) should be equal to "U", which involves N = O. Contradiction. [Same for a substraction.1 Nor a multiplication, because the product should have more that 12 digits. Not a division, because the quotient should have less than 12 digits. For other kind of operation. I think it's not necessary to check anymore. Reference: Mike Mudge, "The Smarandache Function" in the <Personal Computer World> journal. London, July 1992. p. 420. 46