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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[–] kittehx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

If you allow factorials:

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

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

[–] hummas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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.

[–] CR_S01@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

(33*6) - (6/3) = 196

[–] kittehx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 months ago

How did I not try that? Now I feel dumb lol

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