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There are solutions that can start with an 8

Thanks. Will think on it

Cruncher, are you only looking at primitive triples? If so that could be your problem

hi cruncher - there are pairs of triples that differ by value of c.

if x, y,z is a solution then so is ax, ay, az for any integer a.

Turns out I had totally misremembered what I was sure I knew from O level maths. A salutary lesson!

correcting my prior post - a doesnt have to be an integer (clearly my maths degree was too long ago)!

Ah. Of course. That's a nuisance...

Hi all,

Sorry but I forgot to get the paper, does anyone have a scanned copy they can send to me at andyjgt at hotmail dot com ?

Regards and thanks.

andyjgt - sent

I shelved this yesterday as I had the first 35 clues all sorted and then hit a snag. I returned this morning and found that I hadn't made a mistake I identifying the numbers but that my speadsheet for 13 down was wrong (it had the wrong value for N)!! All finished and a clever puzzle. I didn't think that there was a lot of number crunching but filling in the border took a lot of faffing around.