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BrainBoggler
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 8:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nice job bringing the challenge to a close, lotjegetikt! Thumbs up

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 8:33 pm    Post subject: FINAL SOLVED LIST Reply with quote

Man,

You're done!

You've just posted expressions for the final 3 integers, 39,41, and 55, and that means you're done. Very Nicely Done!

Just one little item I'd like to mention, you were not allowed to introduce any additional numerical digits, so I *removed* the zeroes from the final 3 expressions, but of course, that did not change how they calculated out.

Thanks a lot for running my challenge through your mental mill. I hope you had fun.

Here then, is The Final Solved List:

1 = (4+4)/(4+4)
2 = (4/4)+(4/4)
3 = (4+4+4)/4
4 = sqrt(4*4)*(4/4)
5 = (4x4 + 4) / 4
6 = (4! / 4) + 4 - 4
7 = (4+4) - (4/4)
8 = 4 + 4 + 4 - 4
9 = 4/.4 - 4/4
10 = 4/.4 + 4 – 4
11 = (4! / sqrt(4)) - (4 / 4)
12 = (4 x 4) - sqrt(4) - sqrt(4)
13 = (4! / sqrt(4)) + (4 / 4)
14 = (4 x 4) - 4 + sqrt(4)
15 = (4 x 4) - (4 / 4)
16 = 4 + 4 + 4 + 4
17 = (4 x 4) + (4 / 4)
18 = (4! / sqrt(4)) + 4 + sqrt(4)
19 = 4! - 4 - (4 / 4)
20 = ((4! x 4) / 4) – 4
21 = 4! - 4 + (4 / 4)
22 = (4 x 4) + 4 + sqrt(4)
23 = 4! - ((4 / 4) ^ 4)
24 = 4! - 4 + sqrt(4) + sqrt(4)
25 = 4! + ((4 / 4) ^ 4)
26 = 4! + sqrt(4) + 4 – 4
27 = 4! + sqrt(4) + (4 / 4)
28 = 4! + 4 + 4 - 4
29 = 4! + 4 + (4 / 4)
30 = 4! + 4 + 4 - sqrt(4)
31 = ((4! / .4) + sqrt(4)) / sqrt(4)
32 = 4! + sqrt(4) + sqrt(4) + 4
33 = 4! + 4 + (sqrt(4) / .4)
34 = 4! + (4! / sqrt(4)) - sqrt(4)
35 = ((4 * 4) - sqrt(4)) / .4
36 = 4! + 4 + 4 + 4
37 = ((Sqrt(4) + 4!) / Sqrt(4)) + 4!
38 = 4/.4 x 4 - sqrt(4)
39 = ((4 + Sqrt(4)) / .4) + 4!
40 = 4! + (4 + 4) x sqrt(4)
41 = ((Sqrt(4) + 4!) / .4) - 4!
42 = (4! * sqrt(4)) - 4 - sqrt(4)
43 = (4! * sqrt(4)) - (sqrt(4) / .4)
44 = ((4 * 4) / .4) + 4
45 = ((4 * 4) + sqrt(4)) / .4
46 = (4! * sqrt(4)) - (4 / sqrt(4))
47 = 4! x sqrt(4) - (4/4)
48 = 4! x sqrt(4) x (4/4)
49 = 4! x sqrt(4) + (4/4)
50 = 4!/.4 - 4/.4
51 = (4!-sqrt(4))/.4 – 4
52 = 4! + 4! + sqrt(4) + sqrt(4)
53 = (4!-sqrt(4))/.4 - sqrt(4)
54 = (4!-4)/.4 + 4
55 = ((4! - .4) / .4) - 4
56 = 4! + 4! + 4 + 4
57 = (4!-sqrt(4))/.4 + sqrt(4)
58 = 4!/.4 - 4/SQRT(4)
59 = 4!/.4 - 4/4
60 = [(4x4) x 4] – 4

Over and Out!
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 8:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just to throw a new spin onto this puzzle, I have seen this sort of thing before (although not this exact version), in which you use the digits of the current year (and try to get to 100). Admittedly, since 2000 this has probably become quite an interesting prospect, I originally got given the problem around 1993. I can't remember if I ever completed a year, but I had a go at them all at the time (and mostly gave up in 2000).
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm quite amazed that you haven't seen the four fours problem before. I remember doing it as a homework task when I was 12 (2nd year high school). I've used it a few times with some of my classes - but I'm obviously mean to my kids - I won't let them use .4 and I get them to try to make all the numbers up to 100. Razz
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 5:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hatfielder wrote:
but I'm obviously mean to my kids


I,m glad you weren't my teacher then - just kidding Angelic
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 7:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hatfielder wrote:
I've used it a few times with some of my classes - but I'm obviously mean to my kids - I won't let them use .4 and I get them to try to make all the numbers up to 100. Razz


And I bet you will not let them use the Gamma function, either! Razz
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 7:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A puzzle along the same lines for the latent (and not so latent!) mathematicians:

How many numbers can you find which can be mathematically expressed using their own digits?

For example (3+4)^3 = 343.

Jon
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 7:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'd say all of them:

1 = 1
2 = 2
etc...

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 7:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jon, If the digits don't have to be in the same order as the actual number, then these would work:

121 = 11^2
625 = 5^(6-2)

I imagine keeping the numbers in the same order increases the challenge.

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 7:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm guessing that that would only be allowed for 1-9 inclusive, with the question being interpreted as 'using only the individual digits, as numbers in their own right'. In which case, most 2-digit numbers, at least, seem to be completely impossible, at least using only the basic 4 operations, along with powers. In fact, the only one I can come up with (although I've not checked exhaustively, so I may have missed 1 or 2 Smile ) is:

25=5^2

Sad

With more digits, of course, you have much more flexibility, so there would, I guess, be a reasonable, if modest, number of those. And if you start allowing factorials etc., then you can probably do a bit better.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 7:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

SuperGrover wrote:
Hatfielder wrote:
I've used it a few times with some of my classes - but I'm obviously mean to my kids - I won't let them use .4 and I get them to try to make all the numbers up to 100. Razz


And I bet you will not let them use the Gamma function, either! Razz


Why not, you guys just did without asking Razz Wink
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 7:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Any of them who use the Gamma function get extra homework for cheating and just getting the answers from one of the many hundreds of webpages on this problem. Razz
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 7:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What's the gamma function? Confused
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 8:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

theandygrant wrote:
What's the gamma function? Confused


It's an important function in analysis and heavy-lifting-style probability theory. But on the integers, it is defined as gamma(n) = (n-1)! A handy-dandy feature is that gamma(1/2)= sqrt(pi).

In reality, I would be more likely to spring the odd-factorial function on my teacher: n!! = (n)(n-2)...(2) if n is even, (n)(n-2)...(3)(1) if n is odd.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 8:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

stozz wrote:
A puzzle along the same lines for the latent (and not so latent!) mathematicians:

How many numbers can you find which can be mathematically expressed using their own digits?

For example (3+4)^3 = 343.

Jon


If we have to use the digits in order, I submit:

729 = (7+2)^sqrt(9)
6859 = (6+8+5)^sqrt(9)
59319 = (5*9 - 3!*1)^sqrt(9)
117649 = ((1*1*7!/6!)^sqrt(4))^sqrt(9)
185193=((1+8)*(5+1)+sqrt(9))^3
205379 = ((2!+0!)+(5+3)*7)^sqrt(9)
456533 = ((sqrt(4)*5+6)*5-3)^3
493039 = (4!*sqrt(9)+3^0+3!)^sqrt(9)
658503 = ((6+5)*(8)-5^0)^3
970299 = ((9+(7*0)+2)*9)^sqrt(9)
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