[FOM] Feasible and Utterable Numbers

[V.Sazonov@csc.liv.ac.uk]

Quoting Apostolos Syropoulos <apostolo at ocean1.ee.duth.gr> Mon, 07 Aug 2006:

>>> After all, most people would agree that 2^100 is a feasible number,
>>> even though not many have actually  DONE the
>>> computation.
>>
>> NOBODY DID!
>
> Then I am the first one with the following Perl code:
>
> use bignum;
> print 2**1000;
> __END__
>
> And the answer is
> 10715086071862673209484250490600018105614048117055336074437503
> 88370351051124936122493198378815695858127594672917553146825187
> 14528569231404359845775746985748039345677748242309854210746050
> 62371141877954182153046474983581941267398767559165543946077062
> 914571196477686542167660429831652624386837205668069376

Now, plese transform this decimal number into the unary form or in the 
form of SSS...S0. Then you will be really the first one.

Good luck!

Vladimir Sazonov

> PS This has been demonstrated in a previous message, but I am
> reposting it just in case someone has forgot it.

Were that you whom I already replied in this way sometime ago in FOM?


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