Ground rules are critical, but how about
/.1
where "/" represents the APL-style monadic divide or multiplicative inverse.
1/.1
takes two.
----- Original Message -----
From: Ernst W. Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 11:47 AM
Subject: Mersenne: These go to 11 (WAS: blahblah...)
>
> Paul Leyland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> >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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