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user-inactivated  ·  3080 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Fun and hard little math puzzle

If you were allowed to render 1 as 4/4, then...





kleinbl00  ·  3080 days ago  ·  link  ·  

There was a limit as to how many 4s you could use....

a ha. found it.

user-inactivated  ·  3080 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That sort of annoying puzzle is simultaneously what I wish my math classes had been and what I am glad they weren't.

kleinbl00  ·  3080 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I learned binary in 4th grade, octal in 5th and hex in 7th. As a result, I kick ass at concepts of higher math and suck ass at arithmetic. Which is exactly the opposite of what's useful in engineering.