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Manipulate digits to generate year

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• Subject: [mg119706] [mg119706] Manipulate digits to generate year
• From: "Harvey P. Dale" <hpd1 at nyu.edu>
• Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 19:54:16 -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

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