Monday, May 28, 2012

tough puzzle

            How many pages?
My new novel needed 121 digits to print
all the page numbers in sequence.
How many numbered pages does it have?
****ANSWER IS BELOW in WHITE LETTERS*****

pages 1 thru 9 --- 9 digits

pages 10 thru 19 --- 20 digits

pages 20 thru 59 --- 80 digits

that makes 109 digits so we need

to account for 12 more digits

PAGES: 60,61,62,63,64 and 65

ANSWER --- 65 pages!

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