Mersenne: These go to 11 (WAS: blahblah...)

[Ernst W. Mayer]

Paul Leyland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>The radix is always 10.
{snip}
>or, more concisely, (1+1+1)^(1+1) + 1.
>
>Can anyone represent that number in fewer than (1+1+1)! ones?

How about

  1 << 1,

where the shift is, of course, decimal.

Your shifty friend,
-Ernst
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