PFOTD
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Pointless Fact of the day... 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 And I did a repost check first so Forgive me if this is in fact a repost. My code isn't buggy. Those are all fleatures.
The obvious question to such a cool post is what happens when you add another 1 to the end of those operands. Now I could get a piece of paper and produce the answer, but gosh golly, I think I'm going to dust of my BigInt class..:)
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The obvious question to such a cool post is what happens when you add another 1 to the end of those operands. Now I could get a piece of paper and produce the answer, but gosh golly, I think I'm going to dust of my BigInt class..:)
It adds two zeroes in the middle and maintains symmetry. You'd be surprised how much accuracy calc.exe uses.
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Pointless Fact of the day... 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 And I did a repost check first so Forgive me if this is in fact a repost. My code isn't buggy. Those are all fleatures.
I always liked: 987,654,321/123,456,789 ~ 8 98,765,432/12,345,678 ~ 8 9,876,543/1,234,567 ~ 8 987,654/123,456 ~ 8 and so on... Ah, being bored and playing with a calculator.... Jeremy Kimball
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I always liked: 987,654,321/123,456,789 ~ 8 98,765,432/12,345,678 ~ 8 9,876,543/1,234,567 ~ 8 987,654/123,456 ~ 8 and so on... Ah, being bored and playing with a calculator.... Jeremy Kimball
Jeremy Kimball wrote: 987,654,321/123,456,789 ~ 8 98,765,432/12,345,678 ~ 8 9,876,543/1,234,567 ~ 8 987,654/123,456 ~ 8 Cool! 98,765/12,345 ~ 8 9,876/1,234 ~ 8 987/123 ~ 8 98/12 ~ 8 9/1 ~ 8 - Erm, it fails at some point... Trying to make bits uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet. -- Bruce Schneier By the way, dog_spawn isn't a nickname - it is my name with an underscore instead of a space. -- dog_spawn
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Jeremy Kimball wrote: 987,654,321/123,456,789 ~ 8 98,765,432/12,345,678 ~ 8 9,876,543/1,234,567 ~ 8 987,654/123,456 ~ 8 Cool! 98,765/12,345 ~ 8 9,876/1,234 ~ 8 987/123 ~ 8 98/12 ~ 8 9/1 ~ 8 - Erm, it fails at some point... Trying to make bits uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet. -- Bruce Schneier By the way, dog_spawn isn't a nickname - it is my name with an underscore instead of a space. -- dog_spawn
Always gotta steal my thunder... :) Actually, you start degrading as you drop digits...starts off literally at 8, with 8 digits of precision, and you lose precision as you lose digits. Still, an interesting quirk...I wonder how you could graph it? It must asymptotically approach 8 somehow... Jeremy Kimball
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Pointless Fact of the day... 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 And I did a repost check first so Forgive me if this is in fact a repost. My code isn't buggy. Those are all fleatures.
I always found it interesting that the cube root of 31 = pi to 3 decimal places. But your pointless fact is cooler. Marc Latest AAL Article My blog Join my forum!
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I always found it interesting that the cube root of 31 = pi to 3 decimal places. But your pointless fact is cooler. Marc Latest AAL Article My blog Join my forum!
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Pointless Fact of the day... 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 And I did a repost check first so Forgive me if this is in fact a repost. My code isn't buggy. Those are all fleatures.
If you square any number whose digits are all 1 you will get a result that counts up to the number of digits and then back down again (up to 9 digits). Cool!
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Pointless Fact of the day... 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 And I did a repost check first so Forgive me if this is in fact a repost. My code isn't buggy. Those are all fleatures.
also: 101 * 101 = 10201 1001 * 1001 = 1002001 10001 * 10001 = 100020001 100001 * 100001 = 10000200001 1000001 * 1000001 = 1000002000001 . . . i.e. sqr of 1 followed by 'n' 0's followed by 1 is 1 followed by 'n' 0's followed by 2 followed by 'n' 0's followed by 1 and : 3 * 3 = 9 33 * 33 = 1089 333 * 333 = 110889 3333 * 3333 = 11108889 . . . i.e. sqr of a no. with 'n' 3's as digits is (n-1) 1's followed by a 0 followed by (n-1) 8's followed by 9 ... I've got a few more... I used to play with the calc when I was a kid :cool: "It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something." -Ornette Coleman "Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently." -Anon.