enigma1368.txt (c) 2006 by Charles Petzold "Dutch Squares" by Richard England, New Scientist, 26 November 2005, page 52 EEN, VIER, and NEGEN (Dutch for 1, 4, and 9) are perfect squares with numbers replacing letters. No number starts with zero. What's the square root of EEN times VIER times NEGEN? Only two perfect squares have three digits and begin with double digits. They are 225 (15 squared) and 441 (21 squared). If EEN is 225, then NEGEN is 52?25, but that doesn't work. If EEN is 441, then NEGEN is 14641 (121 squared). So VIER is ??4? but the question marks must be 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, or 9. The only one that works is 3249 (57 squared). The solution is 21 times 121 times 57 or 144,837.