Ok, 1024b2000 is not the solution - 9 characters! Raul Miller schrieb: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Roger Hui<[email protected]> wrote: > >> In "At Work and Play in the Fields of J" (1993) >> http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/eem/AWPFJ/5.htm >> Eugene McDonnell posed the problem, >> >> Write a numeric constant with value 2147483648 (2^31) >> in the fewest characters. >> > > I have found two occupying eight characters, but > I have not yet convinced myself that shorter sequences > are not possible. > > FYI, > >
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