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.

  • kittehx
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    9 months ago

    If you allow factorials:

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

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

      • CR_S01@lemmy.ml
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        9 months ago

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

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

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          9 months ago

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

      • Fishbone@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        Interestingly, all values within a difference of 10 were multiples of 3.

        If it’s limited to basic arithmetic (±*/) and no parenthesis, would there be any answer possible that’s not a multiple of 3? My first thought is telling me that common order of operations would make any equation using the numbers in the OP and the restrictions laid out would always amount to a multiple of 3.

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            9 months ago

            Oh yep, my bad. It’s always division that throws me in math expressions that have multiple steps to them.