Monday, July 30, 2007

Four 5's

Using arithmetic combinations of four 5's express the integers from 1 to 12.
You must use all four 5's for each integer.
You may combine the 5's using the arithmetic operations +, -, * (multiplication) and / (division).
You are also allowed to use sqrt (square root) (e.g. sqrt(5) ).
You are allowed to use concatenation (e.g. 55 is valid as part of an answer).
You are allowed to use decimals (e.g. 5.5 is valid as part of an answer; so is .5).
You are allowed to use factorials. For example, 5! (or factorial(5)) = 5*4*3*2*1 = 120.
(The factorial of an integer x! is the product of all the positive integers less than or equal to x).
You do not need to use anything other than those listed above - so no powers of 3, trig operations, logarithms, cube/quartic/etc. roots, etc.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

1 = (5*5/5)/5
2 = (5/5) + (5/5)
3 = (sqrt(5)*sqrt(5)*.5)+.5
4 = 5 - ((sqrt(5)*sqrt(5))/5)
5 = ((sqrt(5)*sqrt(5))/5)*5
6 = 55/5 - 5
7 = (.5(5)) +5 - .5
8 = (.5(5)) +5 + .5
9 = 5 + 5 - (5/5)
10 = (55-5)/5
11 = 5 + 5 + (5/5)
12 = (55+5)/5

July 31, 2007 at 8:58 AM  

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