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wu :: forums    riddles    general problem-solving / chatting / whatever (Moderators: Icarus, Grimbal, SMQ, Eigenray, towr, ThudnBlunder, william wu)    A challenge « Previous topic | Next topic » Pages: 1 2  Reply Notify of replies Send Topic Print    Author  Topic: A challenge  (Read 1562 times) Icarus wu::riddles Moderator Uberpuzzler Boldly going where even angels fear to tread.     Gender: Posts: 4863 Re: A challenge   « Reply #25 on: Oct 28th, 2003, 5:32pm » Quote Modify on Oct 28th, 2003, 12:49am, towr wrote: Yes I agree, so here's the proper order. While BNC first allowed e, he reconsidered, since it's a constant (and thus another number)   Sorry - somehow I missed that in my reading of the thread! (Sigh, more remarks are coming about people who post to threads without reading them... ) ) IP Logged "Pi goes on and on and on ... And e is just as cursed. I wonder: Which is larger When their digits are reversed? " - Anonymous towr wu::riddles Moderator Uberpuzzler Some people are average, some are just mean.     Gender: Posts: 13730 Re: A challenge   « Reply #26 on: Oct 29th, 2003, 12:11am » Quote Modify on Oct 28th, 2003, 5:32pm, Icarus wrote: Sorry - somehow I missed that in my reading of the thread! Don't worry about it, it happens to the best of us (apparantly ) IP Logged Wikipedia, Google, Mathworld, Integer sequence DB SWF Uberpuzzler     Posts: 879 Re: A challenge   « Reply #27 on: Nov 5th, 2003, 5:58pm » Quote Modify I would like to add a $ to the formula I gave on Oct. 27.  I just found out that n$ means "superfactorial":   n$= (n!)^(n!)^(n!)^...^(n!)   where the number of ^'s is n!-1. IP Logged BNC Uberpuzzler     Gender: Posts: 1732 Re: A challenge   « Reply #28 on: Nov 10th, 2003, 2:36pm » Quote Modify It seems we're getting a real mammoth of a number (thanks, SWF).   I think I have an improvement to the "core" number. I figure we may use the "E" notation (e.g., 500 = 5E2) to get: [(.1%)‰]-2E3, which should be a rather largee number (especially after the multidute factorials...) « Last Edit: Nov 10th, 2003, 2:37pm by BNC » IP Logged How about supercalifragilisticexpialidociouspuzzler [Towr, 2007] Pages: 1 2  Reply Notify of replies Send Topic Print Forum Jump: ----------------------------- riddles -----------------------------  - easy   - medium   - hard   - what am i   - what happened   - microsoft   - cs   - putnam exam (pure math)   - suggestions, help, and FAQ => general problem-solving / chatting / whatever ----------------------------- general -----------------------------  - guestbook   - truth   - complex analysis   - wanted   - psychology   - chinese « Previous topic | Next topic »

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