A Conversation for The Myth Of 42 [(5-3+0+5) * (6+0) = 42]
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Finally I have a cool number!! 246642!!! Started conversation Sep 25, 2003
246642 is cool for a number of reasons...and I need to make it a 42ism. Is there anyone there who could help? 
It might not be that hard, I just can't be bothered. Or rather, I couldn't, but now I've posted this I might start to think about it. 
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Jeremy (trying to find his way back to dinner) Posted Sep 25, 2003
Quick and dirty:
((2+4)/6)^6*42 = 42
Jeremy
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Potholer Posted Sep 25, 2003
Sticking to +-*/, there are several different routes:-
24+(6+6*(4/2)) => 42
24*(6-6)+42 => 42
24+6+6+4+2 => 42
(2+4)-(6-6*4)*2 => 42
2*4+(6*6-4/2) => 42
((2*4+6)*6)/(4/2) => 42
(2-4+6+6)*4+2 => 42
2+((4+6)*(6-4))*2 => 42
2*(4-6+6*4)-2 => 42
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AK - fancy that! Posted Sep 27, 2003
wow, but do they equal 42? or are they more than 42...
246642...
(2+4)*(6+(6-4)/2) works...
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AK - fancy that! Posted Sep 27, 2003
thoses were all 42isms? if they were did you come up with them yourself and how and hy do they all have => in them?
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Potholer Posted Sep 27, 2003
Not exactly myself - I wrote a program to look for working formulas, and those were some of the results (many results it comes up with are pretty similar, so I manually sorted through trying to find ones that went on different enough paths).
The => was just written that way to make it easier to read the output in a very small font, and I suppose looking back through postings, it also helps me tell apart things my program came up with from any manual solutions I might have done myself.
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Potholer Posted Sep 27, 2003
Oddly enough, I'd thought of => as 'becomes' (similar to ->
, and hadn't thought about the 'equals or greater than' interpretation.
I suppose linguistically I'd always thought of 'greater/less than (or equal to)' as the way to describe inequalities, and always written them in the form <= or >= even if a language also accepted the alternate forms.
In fact, I'm not at all sure which of the languages I write in *do* accept => or =< as legal operators. I'd never really thought about that before.
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Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted Oct 1, 2003
Welcome Finally to the Brotherhood of the KNights of the DoQuaDecagonic table... 
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AK - fancy that! Posted Oct 1, 2003
maybe its >= thats equal to or greater than instead of =>
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Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted Oct 17, 2003
Which exceptions? 1!, 2!, and 0! ?
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. Posted Oct 18, 2003
No, like when you have to arrange the letters in APPLE, except there are two Ps, so it's not a simple n!, you have to fiddle with it. 
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Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted Oct 22, 2003
That's when you start using nCr (IIRC) to show ways of picking a number of different things from a pool of things... Or is it nPr<?>
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. Posted Oct 23, 2003
Yeah there's nPr and a whole lot of other confusing things I don't get. Test next Tuesday.
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