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What fun !

Since you can generate 11, 9 & 5 out of 32, you could generate 21, 23 & 27 out of 32 by ~.

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by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Oct 10, 2008 at 11:53 UTC
    Since you can generate 11, 9 & 5 out of 32, you could generate 21, 23 & 27 out of 32 by ~.

    I did consider using ~, and did get some results, but I had a hard enough time wrapping my brain around 2 levels of precedence, never mind 3!

    Just as I believe that the 19th century scholars that gave us our grammar and spelling "rules" did us all a dis-service, I think that the ,athematicians that gave us (arbitrary) rules of precedence did likewise.

    Expressions would just be easier to deal with, if they were alway evauated left to right.

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