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Barcode alien challenge

Dr. Yossi Elran presents the barcode section of the alien challenge

We return to the course challenge! Decipher the following barcode:

Course challenge barcode

You might want to flip back to the barcode page for help…

PS: Aliens are known to use the first digit of the barcode to signify Tesha the planet they come from (the single digit code for Tesha is 9), and they also use checksum digits, so once you have the answer you can ignore the first and last digits

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Maths Puzzles: Cryptarithms, Symbologies and Secret Codes

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