The Mathenæum Blog » Puzzles http://www.thewessens.net/blog Discussing mathematical explorations, games, and learning Fri, 03 Jul 2015 01:35:49 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.5 Puzzles with 4 numbers, and the amazing power of powers http://www.thewessens.net/blog/2015/03/14/4-numbers/ http://www.thewessens.net/blog/2015/03/14/4-numbers/#comments Sat, 14 Mar 2015 12:14:34 +0000 http://www.thewessens.net/blog/?p=178 A fun puzzle is to choose a number between 1 and 10, then using that number exactly four times in an expression involving basic mathematical operations, i.e. at least +,_,\times,\div but also possibly \sqrt{~~}, n^n, see what values you can create.

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