Actually, your a need not be a positive integer. Any non-zero Real,
Complex, quaternion, Hamiltonian, Cayley or Sylvester number will do...
among others...
JT
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From: Markus Laire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Mersenne: These go to 11 (WAS: blahblah...)
> > >or, more concisely, (1+1+1)^(1+1) + 1.
> > >Can anyone represent that number in fewer than (1+1+1)! ones?
>
> This all depends on what operators and notations are accepted and
> without specifying that, the whole question is useless.
>
> What about without any ones at all: (With C++ operators)
> ((0++)++)*(((((0++)++)++)++)++)
>
> or without any numbers: (With normal algebra)
>
> ((a/a)+(a/a))*((a/a)+(a/a)+(a/a)+(a/a)+(a/a)), a [belongs to] N
>
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