From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The next exercise
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2022 19:44:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <574c1ceba8d5f62d3c07@heytings.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tu24tmv6.fsf@web.de>
>
> Hello,
>
> my exercise for today is something I stumbled across a few days ago but
> that is very nice: Answer with only using Emacs (or maybe your school
> knowledge?):
>
> The first three decimal digits (from the left) of 1001^1000 - i.e. one
> thousand and one to the one thousand's power,
>
> 1001*1001*...*1001
> \________________/
> ^
> 1000 factors
>
> are of course:
>
> (a) 2 7 1, the first three digits of Euler's number e
>
> (b) 3 1 4, the first three digits of the mathematical constant pi
>
> (c) 1 0 0, or
>
> (d) none of these
>
> What's your choice? How would you solve this using Emacs (or maybe even
> without)?
>
M-: (substring (number-to-string (expt 1001 1000)) 0 3) RET
"271"
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-09 19:09 The next exercise Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-09 19:42 ` tomas
2022-12-09 20:38 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-10 2:09 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-10 6:18 ` tomas
2022-12-10 7:28 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-10 2:05 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-09 19:44 ` Gregory Heytings [this message]
2022-12-09 19:58 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-09 20:19 ` tomas
2022-12-09 20:33 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-12-09 20:51 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-09 21:27 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-12 1:34 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-15 5:29 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-15 22:24 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-15 23:17 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-16 1:16 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-17 0:20 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-18 0:11 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-20 4:45 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-11 19:48 ` Andy Moreton
2022-12-12 1:39 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-15 10:47 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-10 2:25 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-09 20:43 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-09 21:29 ` Michael Heerdegen
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