2**2**2**2**2 wrong? Bug?
Gabriel Genellina
gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar
Thu Jul 12 20:50:23 EDT 2007
En Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:30:05 -0300, Nick Craig-Wood <nick at craig-wood.com>
escribió:
> Gabriel Genellina <gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
>> En Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:39:17 -0300, Paul McGuire <ptmcg at austin.rr.com>
>> escribió:
>>
>> > As was
>> > pointed out earlier, left-associativity with exponentiation is of
>> > little value, since (2**3)**2 is the same as 2**(3*2) or 2**6=64.
>>
>> Just for curiosity: This helps to find the answer to the problem
>> "Which is
>> the largest number that can be written with only 3 digits?"
>> Some people stop at 999, others try 99**9 and 9**99, and the winner is
>> 9**9**9, or:
>
> Actually I think 9**9E9 is bigger!
But you have to use an "E", or write "...x10⁹" in standard "paper-and-pen"
mathematical notation. The idea was to use *only* digits.
--
Gabriel Genellina
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