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The offical NSC Puzzle Donkey Thread



Lammy

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Oct 1, 2003
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ehh? I thought you had to take the letter off the end of the name?
 




Lammy

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Oct 1, 2003
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How the hell do you get decimal places with + and - 1? He must be dividing at some point!
 




Lammy

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OK for the large number I have 64

(1+1) to the power of (1+1) ttpo (1+1+1)

for the smallest number I have

1 / (1+1) ttpo (1+1+1+1)

= 0.0625
 














Lammy

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Oct 1, 2003
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Newhaven/Lewes/Atlanta
is 0.0625 right?

I hinestly can't see a way of getting bigger than 64??
 








This is the help I got from someone nice on their forum.


Basically using the 1's you can add them up to make 3 useful numbers [2, 2, 3].

Those additions need to be in brackets so 3 = (1+1+1)

Using only 2 of those numbers, the highest value you can get is 3^2 = 9 (where the ^ is done by placing the other numbers higher to represent a power)

That means the highest number is 2^(3^2) which is 512.

Written out fully that is (1+1)^((1+1+1)^{1+1}). Although if you write it out on paper then you don't need one of the sets of brackets (marked as {}) because that woudl be implicit (although mathematically incorrect). That is important to know for the smallest number which uses the same logic.
 


Old Goat

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Jun 8, 2004
148
(1+1+1)^(1+1+1+1) = 81

and

1/(1+1+1)^(1+1+1) = 0.03704 to 5 decimal points

but 0.03704 x 81 = 3 or 3.00024 but neither of these works :nono:
 






Old Goat

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Jun 8, 2004
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Kylies Stunt Arse said:
This is the help I got from someone nice on their forum.


Basically using the 1's you can add them up to make 3 useful numbers [2, 2, 3].

Those additions need to be in brackets so 3 = (1+1+1)

Using only 2 of those numbers, the highest value you can get is 3^2 = 9 (where the ^ is done by placing the other numbers higher to represent a power)

That means the highest number is 2^(3^2) which is 512.

Written out fully that is (1+1)^((1+1+1)^{1+1}). Although if you write it out on paper then you don't need one of the sets of brackets (marked as {}) because that woudl be implicit (although mathematically incorrect). That is important to know for the smallest number which uses the same logic.

no that is bollocks - if you get rid of the curly brackets it equals 16 and you cant leave them in as we only have 7 brackets to play with. If that is the right answer .... :angry:
 






Lammy

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Oct 1, 2003
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Newhaven/Lewes/Atlanta
In that case the smallest number you can get is;

1/(2^(2^2))

2^2 = 4

2^4 = 16

1 / 16 = 0.0625

which it isn't because 3^3 is 27.

1 / 27 = 0.03704
 




Hampden Park

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Oct 7, 2003
4,993
help with 4.2.2 name the flower
havnt got a clue
pm me please some1
:dunce: :nono: :dunce:
 




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