I have a strong feeling that today's mscroggs.co.uk Advent problem has a bug

[oblomov@sociale.network]

I have a strong feeling that today's mscroggs.co.uk Advent problem has a bug

https://www.mscroggs.co.uk/

Or am I missing something?

(Double-checked with my son and he too feels there's at least one typo).

EDIT: No error, we unconsciously set an arbitrary restriction on the digit position that made it impossible.

#askFedi #mscroggs #mathematics #mathProblem #mathQuiz

[oscarcunningham@mathstodon.xyz]

@oblomov I think I have a solution that works for all the rows and columns. Did you notice this part of the description? 'The sums should be read left to right and top to bottom ignoring the usual order of operations.'

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@OscarCunningham I did, however the solutions I come up with have an incompatibility between the first column and the second row. For the first column you need (a/b)*c = 2 and for the second row you need (b*e) - f = 37, but the latter can only be achieved with a digit between 5 and 9 for b, which would make

Oh wait. There's no reaso why a/b should be a positive integer. Damnit.