[SOC] A little math problem
Fred Jensen
k6dgw at foothill.net
Tue Nov 6 13:16:52 EST 2007
Richard HIll wrote:
> Well, Fred, to a biologist it is divisible by 123456789 within significant
> digits, but I'm only counting fingers so that is 8 digits and two thumbs.
>
> Rich NU6T
> #612
Unfortunately, factoring is a problem in the natural numbers [i.e.
positive integers], and few if any calculators ... or human hands ...
handle 17-digit integers. It's really more of a arithmetic
visualization problem than a straight out math problem.
Fred K6DGW
#633
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