I'm not known for flash stories. In fact, I'm pretty sure this is the first one I've ever posted. But this one has been banging around in my mind for years, now, so I decided to finally write it. I was going to save it for a contest, but none ever came up.
My apologies to those people who get bent out of shape if a code is left out, particularly an important one. But I had to leave that code out because it would have been a clear spoiler. I did give you some clues in the other codes. You can let me know if they helped figure it out. If it did, I'll remove those codes, too.
The surprise is critical to the meaning of the story.
Thanks for reading.
Bob
Oh. Almost forgot. It's called A Difficult Problem Resolved.