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You will be Les Miserables if you miss it*.

Jon

*I'm struggling to think of more puns.

What? THE PRODUCERS should be in HIGH SPIRITS, you know, WALKING HAPPY about the contest they made. I ...

It started on a Friday when the sky turned black

Part of me feared that this meant a really long game of Trivia Survivor.)

particularly the Australians among you...

But but but..what about us Kiwis?? Mad

Sorry - I needed an "A" there (for obvious reasons), but consider yourselves very muc ...

120 = ((1+2)! + 0)! a bit less ugly

Sorry, but ((1+2)!+0)! equals 720.

May I submit 5040 = (5+0+sqrt(4))! + 0 as another candidate?

I suspect that many--nay, all--factorials for N>3 will fit under this rubric.

N>13 to the reader...]
479001600 = (4+7+(9*0)+0 ...

If we have to use the digits in order, I submit:

729 = (7+2)^sqrt(9)
6859 = (6+8+5)^sqrt(9)
59319 = (5*9 - 3!*1)^sqrt(9)
117649 = ((1*1*7!/6!)^sqrt(4))^sqrt(9)
185193=((1+8 )*(5+1)+sqrt(9))^3
...

A puzzle along the same lines for the latent (and not so latent!) mathematicians:

How many numbers can you find which can be mathematically expressed using their own digits?

For example (3+4)^3 ...

What's the gamma function? Confused

It's an important function in analysis and heavy-lifting-style probability theory. But on the integers, it is defined as gamma(n) = (n-1)! A handy-dandy feature i ...

I've used it a few times with some of my classes - but I'm obviously mean to my kids - I won't let them use .4 and I get them to try to make all the numbers up to 100. Razz

And I bet you will not le ...

It appears I was the foolish person who foolishly opened it before FC and therefore foolishly infected him - and others too Embarassed

I am sorry for any inconvenience caused to anyone on my msn contac ...

Better than watching Angola vs Portugal, methinks!

Stretham

I do not know about that--these post-colonial grudge matches can be quite passionate :angel:

Most excellent! And very clean code, I might add. Thumbs up

Oh. One thing: the Puzzletome copyright in the footer is in an H1 element, so the display: none rule is firing for it and instead the p ...

He's good !

I truly had no expectations otherwise!

Kudos to the first person to ask Si a question that he cannot answer in verse Evil or Very Mad

Si, which is better for poets: orange or silver? Angelic

I received a crossword puzzle for Christmas.

It measures 7' x 7', and I thought I'd share the bottom right-hand corner with you...

Clearly, Santa did not think I had been a good boy this year !! ...