G'morning Jason,

I got an opportunity to read through your steps there, and to 
meditate on differences of approach.

Did you scratch-pad your run in the message itself, or use a 
spreadsheet on the side ?

My run at it,  having checked out the arithmetic,  lay in using qb 
to check out, what values of TEN would produce a one-less square 
divisible by 9 ... 145, 325, 730 and 901.

I used these values in another qb scratcher to test for values of 
I and Y that would see SIX squares between TEN and NINETY for each 
of the possible TENs, and bingo-ed into the solution.

Using qb this way is a far cry from the mind-stretching logic that 
a 1960's Scientific American puzzle from Martin Gardner demanded 
to solve...

EVE/DID = .TALKTALKTALK....

:-) 
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