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#1 2013-05-23 12:59:05

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Make 9,999 using 9 nines

Can you do that? Good luck!


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#2 2013-05-23 13:09:02

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Re: Make 9,999 using 9 nines


In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
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#3 2013-05-23 16:10:38

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Re: Make 9,999 using 9 nines

999*(9+9/9)+9*9/9


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#4 2013-05-23 17:14:11

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Re: Make 9,999 using 9 nines


In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

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#5 2013-05-23 18:33:57

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Re: Make 9,999 using 9 nines


There are 10 kinds of people in the world,people who understand binary and people who don't.

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#6 2013-05-23 19:25:54

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Re: Make 9,999 using 9 nines

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#7 2013-05-23 20:08:33

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Re: Make 9,999 using 9 nines


In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

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#8 2013-05-23 21:09:34

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Re: Make 9,999 using 9 nines

Hi Bobby,

Your last solution has only eight nines.

W|A didn't like that one (can't think logically, I suppose).

M first said "General::ovfl: Overflow occurred in computation", but then it gave the answer 9999 anyway.


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#9 2013-05-23 21:16:53

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Re: Make 9,999 using 9 nines

Bravo! Bravo!

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#10 2013-05-23 21:26:25

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Hi;

Yes, it did look like there were only 8 nines there. I changed it.

He was right to say overflow but of course yours is right too.


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#11 2013-05-23 22:42:43

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#12 2013-05-23 22:52:45

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In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

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#13 2013-05-23 23:12:09

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#14 2013-05-23 23:19:23

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Re: Make 9,999 using 9 nines


There are 10 kinds of people in the world,people who understand binary and people who don't.

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#15 2013-05-23 23:21:23

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#16 2013-05-23 23:22:54

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Re: Make 9,999 using 9 nines

9999=min(9999,99999)


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#17 2013-05-23 23:28:23

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In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

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#18 2013-05-24 01:22:21

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Last edited by phrontister (2013-05-24 04:46:50)


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#19 2013-05-24 02:24:30

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Re: Make 9,999 using 9 nines

9(9-9+9999/√9/√9)=9999


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#20 2013-05-24 04:28:54

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Last edited by phrontister (2013-05-24 04:30:37)


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#21 2013-05-24 08:11:10

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Re: Make 9,999 using 9 nines

9999 occurrs in the 999999999 we are using.


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#22 2013-05-24 11:27:00

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Why, so it does! How did you do that?


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#23 2013-05-24 19:38:58

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In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

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#24 2013-05-24 22:29:59

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Re: Make 9,999 using 9 nines

Last edited by phrontister (2013-05-24 22:30:15)


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#25 2013-05-26 14:18:13

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Re: Make 9,999 using 9 nines

9*9=81 (2 nines)
81*99=8,019 (4 nines)
8,019+(99*9)=8,910 (7 nines)
concat(8+1,9+0),(9,9) (9 nines)

Horray! 9,999 using 9 nines!


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