"Numbers have life; they're not just symbols on paper."
Shakuntala Devi
Maths maths all around !
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The digits of the year 2016 need to be used only once in various combinations in order to come up with answers 1 to 100.
The students use their newfound knowledge of exponents and square roots to solve this challenging problem.
--.- x. -.-= 100
A decimal multiplication problem which should have a product closest to 100.
A few students finally came up with 99.96.
Can you come up with a closer one?
I get it now, and I think its awesome! What a fun challenge!
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ReplyDeleteThis awesome! The closet I got was 2.2*4.5045=9.9999. Challenge you to get even closer!
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