Thursday, May 11, 2006

Dressed to the Nines

How do you six nines to equal exactly 100? You can use addition, division, decimals, etc... just no other digits.

7 comments:

  1. 99.9999999 = 100

    (For extremely large values of 99.9999999 only)

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  2. too many 9s... chop off 3 ^_^

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  3. (999 - 99) / 9 = 100

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  4. This time the rules were too wide open.

    99 + 99/99
    99 + 9/9 + 9 - 9
    99.9999 (need a bar over that last 9)
    99 + 99^(9-9)
    (99/.99)^(9/9)

    Any restrictions?

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  5. Nope, no further rules are needed. I like seeing all the possibilities here. I was just going to post the answer: 99 + (99/99), but all of the possibilities you, karnov, and tamara have come up with are interesting to me.

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  6. Do you know "Four fours"? (that is one of many links.) It reminds me, a bit, of this problem. I use four fours with my freshmen each Fall.

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  7. years late:

    9x9 + 9/9 + 9 + 9

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