Brain Game: 4 = 100?

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For Think Thursday here at the mentalfloss.com Brain Game, think of today's puzzle as a numeric cryptogram. Good luck!

In the following challenge, each letter of the alphabet consistently represents a particular digit (0 through 9) throughout the puzzle. You'll try to decipher the correct digit=letter combos to make the equation work (and there are no leading zeroes.) Here goes:

TWO × TWO = FIFTY + FIFTY

Here is the SOLUTION.

THE SOLUTION:

308 × 308 = 47432 + 47432

W = 0
Y = 2
T = 3
F = 4
I = 7
O = 8

Tomorrow: Free-for-all Friday!

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