'The Powers That Be' challenge... please help me...

dorahan · Post by **dorahan** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 5:58 am

please help me to solve this challenge... i don't understand at all what does it mean.. please give me a clear information to solve it... thanks so much...

Allosentient · Post by **Allosentient** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 6:29 am

could you try to work on a challenge for a day or two before asking for help? Chances are you will figure it out on your own if you try enough and think about it.

I hope this doesn't sound mean, but trying it for a day or two really works

dorahan · Post by **dorahan** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:04 am

i have thought about this challenge hardly.. but it doesn't make any result.. i'm completely do not understand at all... huhuhuhuhu... i haven't heard a coding uses kind of 'to the power of' in it... and i also have tried open this http://www.unitconversion.org/unit_conv ... mbers.html but it seems it is not a kind of number series... i don't have any idea with this challenge..

Xeyes · Post by **Xeyes** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 2:17 pm

The answer is out there dorahan.
Try to think about what you need!
Then find the right tools or make them.

And remember there are always multiple ways to get to an answer.

dorahan · Post by **dorahan** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 2:04 pm

please... i don't understand this challenge... i never seen a coding with 'the power of' word before... please help me...

therethinker · Post by **therethinker** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 3:25 pm

Its not a real programing language. Its pseudo-code.
If you don't know what pseudo-code is, google it.

What do you think the_power_of() would do?

anantshri · Post by **anantshri** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 6:29 am

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/to_the_power_of

might help in solving the problem,

but still i have not figured out about how to get 33rd digit's any help highly appreciated.
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dorahan · Post by **dorahan** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 1:32 am

I've solved this challenged already.. My friend had run the code in Linux and he got a whole numbers... With those numbers you must count every 33rd digits number and stick them together... Don't forget to add the first number... So you start count every 33rd after the first number..

anantshri · Post by **anantshri** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 7:18 am

thanks for the pointer,

will try it on linux machine then

my scinetific calculator was giving me nightmares.
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dorahan · Post by **dorahan** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 7:21 am

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guxx · Post by **guxx** » Sat Nov 08, 2008 12:18 am

Just proved that it is possible to solve it on Windows, too

jarel · Post by **jarel** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 7:06 pm

jup, via drscheme

TechnoDemon · Post by **TechnoDemon** » Fri Apr 16, 2010 8:05 am

i just can't imagine how come my favorite Windows Calculator can't calculate this math ops?
maybe the display screen ain't big enough to show all the digits so it will add 'e+bla bla bla' in the end of the numbers.
My friend advised me to use excel, but it says #NUM,
Then i use VB to make my own calculator and use word wrap so it will show all the numbers i need...

CodeX · Post by **CodeX** » Fri Apr 16, 2010 8:17 am

Excel can only hold numbers that are up to 308 decimal digits, the answer is 528 digits. You need a high/arbitrary precision calculator.

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