>I once had a great idea: I would express the Great Number in hex!
>Then I realized that I would get with 4 pages of tiny Fs. {8-[
>Not so interesting. But if some clever GIMPSer were to generate the
>perfect number that is (M37*(M37+1))/2 then express *that* number
>in hex, I would clear off a space on my office wall for it. {8-] Anyone
>accept the challenge?
This would just be a bunch of Fs followed by a bunch of 0s (with maybe a
different character in the middle and at the very beginning).
In binary:
M37 = 1111111....111
M37 + 1 = 10000...00
M37*(M37+1) = 11111...110000...00
(M37*(M37+1))/2 = 11111...110000...0 <- one less zero
This still is almost twice as long and just about as interesting as M37
itself.
-Dennis
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