Making any integer with four 2s (2025)

Re:Making any integer with four 2s (2025) by teo_zero on Saturday November 07, 2026 @06:18PM (#50408980)

Never understood why 7 is considered difficult...

7 = ⌈ 2.2² + 2 ⌉

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Re:Making any integer with four 2s (2025) by Jtsummers on Saturday November 07, 2026 @06:29PM (#50409038)

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Re:Making any integer with four 2s (2025) by AnimalMuppet on Saturday November 07, 2026 @07:06PM (#50409264)

It is difficult when the rules do not allow exponentiation.

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Re:Making any integer with four 2s (2025) by Jtsummers on Saturday November 07, 2026 @07:28PM (#50409397)

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Re:Making any integer with four 2s (2025) by blueblock on Saturday November 07, 2026 @07:29PM (#50409408)

Rounding spoils the fun of the puzzle.

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Re:Making any integer with four 2s (2025) by nostrademons on Saturday November 07, 2026 @08:14PM (#50409633)

It seems very much in the spirit of allowing concatenation and square roots...

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Re:Making any integer with four 2s (2025) by jtari3333 on Sunday November 08, 2026 @03:41AM (#50411476)

Rounding is a completely valid mathematical operation.

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Re:Making any integer with four 2s (2025) by anthk on Saturday November 07, 2026 @10:23PM (#50410160)

(2 << 2) - ( 2 / 2)

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