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In response to: "And the answer is :-" 1473 days old
by DansBlog [Member]

Your perfectly correct, all those brackets weren't required. Yes, I think powers would also be allowed although probably only 1,3,4 & 6. I tried that and got no-where.
So nice to hear from someone with such a positive response. Nice one!!
I looked at your site. I used to write and translate Z80 games in the late 80's, Spectrum and A more…

In response to: "And the answer is :-" 1474 days old
by The_Walrus ^Pro

I liked your solution, though I suspect you don't need all the brackets ((I'm too lazy to check!)) and am only commenting on the absence of ! from their puzzle. Presumably, raising a number to a power would also be an allowable function as it depends only on the position and size of the digits, rather than using a function symbol?

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In response to: "And the answer is :-" 1474 days old
by DansBlog [Member]

To the Walrus and any other interested parties,

I am new to the quiz and took the instructions literally. I have looked at last months quiz and pasted it in below.
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In the last newsletter, I set you a Nubble puzzle :-

Using the basic operations of addition, more…

In response to: "And the answer is :-" 1475 days old
by The_Walrus ^Pro

"Using + - / * and all the numbers 6,4,3,1 make the answer 24"

But that has no "!" in it... more…