
As is often the case with solving problems, there are several ways of looking at the problem. For example, Mark from St Johns, Walsall Wood kept the digits separate and did:
"Highest: $3 \times4 \times5 \times6 = 360$
Lowest: $3 - 4 \times5 \times6 = - 117$"
But Jason from Dunstable put some digits together:
"I made the highest number $3258$ by simply multiplying $543$ by $6$.
I made the lowest number $-651$ by simply subtracting $654$ from $3$".
Published April 1999.