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Re: The next exercise
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tomas |
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Re: The next exercise |
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Fri, 9 Dec 2022 20:42:13 +0100 |
On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 08:09:49PM +0100, Michael Heerdegen wrote:
> 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)?
My choice was school maths. But I cheated, because I
studied physics later, so those maths were kept warm
for some longer while ;-)
To test my conjecture (old physicist, after all), I
resorted to guile, then to Emacs: by golly, that gmp
thingy is... fast :)
Cheers
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