A Conversation for The Myth Of 42 [(5-3+0+5) * (6+0) = 42]
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Hardy the Indecisive Started conversation May 14, 2001
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(-1+(7*4)-6+0)*2 = 42
Not very exciting, but it works.
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Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted May 15, 2001
I shall add with a link (ITOK)?
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Hardy the Indecisive Posted May 16, 2001
I found another few solutions to my researcher number.
See http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A557246
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Oengus (1+7-5)*(5+4+5) Posted May 16, 2001
Very interesting. But I bet you could spend your time in more productive ways. 
Oengus - still annoyed that one solution took 8 hours.
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Merkin Posted May 17, 2001
Morning Argon0. Thought I would check out the divine truth and indeed U49185 -> ((4+1)x5)+(8+9) = 42 and indeed, I am of that number. I'm now off to find a more difficult way of achieving it as that looks too easy. 
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Eeyyuuup- ((1+7)/4) + (4x10)=42 Posted May 17, 2001
jimbobthefinder (U174410), for it is he, is completely gobsmacked and can't quite believe that he is able to present, for verification and publication (if proved) by keeper of 42isms, the following solution;
((1+7)/4)+(4*10)=42
thanks, jimbobthefinder.
ps is there a vacancy for "muse of the mathematically inept"? 
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Potholer Posted May 17, 2001
Merkin, to follow the rules and keep the digits *in order*, you could use :
(4+9+1)*(8-5)
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Merkin Posted May 17, 2001
Ooops, hadn't seen that rule, 
, back to the drawing board on the variations then...
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Potholer Posted May 17, 2001
Don't worry - I was just about to post (8*5)+2+(9*0) for myself last night, when I realised the original-order rule.
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Potholer Posted May 17, 2001
Whoops - scratch that one - extra zero. I shouldn't have stayed up so late last night.
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Potholer Posted May 17, 2001
Merkin, in consolation, if you don't mind a sqrt :
sqrt(4)*(9-1+8+5)
If I could only find a second one for *my* number...
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Merkin Posted May 17, 2001
One good turn deserves another:
Try this one for size:
Potholer = ((9^2)-(5*8))+0! = 42 c'est vrai?
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Potholer Posted May 17, 2001
Even though it's legal, 0! does feel a bit of cheat. Still, I suppose cos(0) would suffice.
Cheers
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Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted May 17, 2001
Welcome Merkin & Potholer
Are you complaining about the use of Shrieks per se? Or just 0!
There is an alternative for Merkins: 4! + 9 *(-1+8-5) = 42
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Potholer Posted May 17, 2001
Just the 0!. It seems a little like 0/0, though since cos(0) gives the same result, I guess 0! is a more elegant way of writing the 0->1 conversion.
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Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted May 17, 2001
Yeah, well 0^0 = 1 seemed a bit contentious so, after checking, decided to allow 0!=1 - as this is to do with the ways of choosing things from other things - there is only 1 way to choose nothing from nothing (mathematically) so 0!=1 (this gets complex - there is a thread around here which explains it better!).
Some people have complained about use of Cos, Tan, Sin, etc... as being shorthand for other stuff... Also that it should quote the results in Radians not Degrees.
I have added all of you to the Myth now, and everybody else I've collected in the last 2 days...
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- 1: Hardy the Indecisive (May 14, 2001)
- 2: Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) (May 15, 2001)
- 3: Hardy the Indecisive (May 15, 2001)
- 4: Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) (May 15, 2001)
- 5: Hardy the Indecisive (May 16, 2001)
- 6: Oengus (1+7-5)*(5+4+5) (May 16, 2001)
- 7: Potholer (May 16, 2001)
- 8: Merkin (May 17, 2001)
- 9: Eeyyuuup- ((1+7)/4) + (4x10)=42 (May 17, 2001)
- 10: Potholer (May 17, 2001)
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