You can use the digits 1,2,and 3 once only and any mathematical symbols you are aware of, but no symbol is to be used more than once. The challenge is to see if you can make the largest numbers.

Here are some numbers to set the ball rolling: 321, 21to the third power, (3/.1)to the second power.

(levik: I guess this is more of a competition)

(In reply to re: re: re: I go first... by Happy)

In a puzzle like this "symbols" usually referes to the writen form of operators or functions. "Euler's number" and "pi" are not symbols in this sense, they are numbers. The only numbers we are allowed are 1, 2, and 3.

Since the only way to top Aleph Null (Fried Linguini's second try) is with higher order infinities, and none of them can be expressed with only 1, 2, 3, and symbols, we need to either declare Fried Linguini the winner, or disqualify Aleph Null. (Personally I say we do both. Give FL an "honorary" win with an asterisk.)

Posted by TomM on 2002-06-06 14:05:28