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Expression for 29 (Posted on 2024-09-07) Difficulty: 3 of 5
Using just four sixes, parentheses where necessary, and the following seven symbols as needed:
+  -  x  /  .  !   √
find an expression for 29.

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Five 6's is easy enough: 6*6 - 6 - 6/6 = 29.  But we only have four 6's available.
Sqrt seems rather odd for a problem dealing with 6's, so I deduced that at least one was mandatory. Playing around I found sqrt(6!+11^2) = 29, then how to get 11^2 in three 6's?
Actually not too hard: (6!+6)/6 = 121.
Then the answer is sqrt[6!+(6!+6)/6] = 29.

  Posted by Brian Smith on 2025-03-22 14:10:57
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