Math problem

I do not understand one bit.Sorry.

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You can add this one up by hand - but in case anyone is interested, here's a Python function that should generally solve this type of problem - provided that the word is such that, as with this one, you can only go in one direction with no backtracking...

Hrm, the code tags aren't working for me, so here's a link to a pastebin of it:

http://pastebin.com/f46c18dd7

btw - markr, I did check out Project Euler - very cool. Did the first ones in order up to the monopoly problem in the early 80's. Got snagged on that one somehow and then got sidetracked on other stuff - will eventually get back to it. Don't know if you've seen http://stackoverflow.com or not - that's a site you might enjoy.