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just some dice I threw around. nothing to see here (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Alt text: Five dices. Top left corner is a three, top right corner is a six, bottom left corner is also a six and bottom right corner is two threes forming a straight angle.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (8 children)

I’m now committed to getting this to work, but I’m not quite there.

(6^3) - 6 * 3 - 3 = 195 Beyond this, I’m quite lost on how this can be done with simple arithmetic.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

If you allow factorials:

6^3 - 6! / (3! * 3!) = 196

Edit: also 66*3 - 3!/3 = 196

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

Factorials or something more than basic arithmetic (+exponents) is needed as I went ahead and programmatically checked every expression without parenthesis and the closest would always be 195. Interestingly, all values within a difference of 10 were multiples of 3.

A lost cause indeed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If we allow combining digits to make larger numbers (like kittehx's edit) we can actually do