G'morning Jasen, 

 JB> no spreadsheet, most of the arithmetic was done in bash
 JB> (the linux command-line)

 JB> n=12: while [ x lt 32 ] do echo $x  $((x*x))  $((x*x+1)) ; x=$((x+3));

Very, very nice ... time for me to go exploring...

 JB>  EVE/DID = TALK/9999

Ya have to know about the oddities of dividing by 999's... which 
not many do.

 JB>     D is 1,3,or 9

Lovely command line utility...what else is built in ?

 JB> clearly EVE*11 results in E=K which is not allowed so it must be EVE*33
 JB> which means DID=9999/33=303

Plus lots of breakfast...

 JB>      242/303 = .798679867986....
 JB>      EVE/DID = .TALKTALKTALK....

I'd have lost a bottle of Lindauer had you been in one of my 
classes !  (I have a little set of 8 problems for which a bottle 
of bubbly is offered to anybody with a clean run - and eve/did 
talk has saved me heaps over the years...)

:-))
 
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