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Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> writes:

> Hint 1: Start with (** 2 10) which is 1024.
> Hint 2: Think computers, not math ...

Hint 1 still looks like math to me.

Sorry, I'm not able to solve it.  Seems I don't know enough about
computers, or I'm too much a mathematician.

Michael.