Manipulate digits to generate year
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- Subject: [mg119706] Manipulate digits to generate year
- From: "Harvey P. Dale" <hpd1 at nyu.edu>
- Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 06:13:09 -0400 (EDT)
Here are two neat ways of using the digits, in proper or reverse order, to generate the current year: 10+(9*8*(7/6)*5*4)+321 = 2011 0-12+(34*56)+7*(8+9) How could you write a Mathematica program to derive these? If you wanted to do something similar, but to generate a different year (e.g., 2012), how could you do that? Best, Harvey ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________