On 7/11/07, Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > En Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:39:17 -0300, Paul McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > escribió: > > > As was > > pointed out earlier, left-associativity with exponentiation is of > > little value, since (2**3)**2 is the same as 2**(3*2) or 2**6=64. > > Just for curiosity: This helps to find the answer to the problem "Which is > the largest number that can be written with only 3 digits?" > Some people stop at 999, others try 99**9 and 9**99, and the winner is > 9**9**9, or: > > | 9 > | 9 > | 9 > > Sorry, couldn't resist.
But you can append ! (i.e. factorial) indefinitely without adding any digits to make the number arbitrarily large ;-) -- Evan Klitzke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
