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Old 10-31-2011, 03:22 PM   #133
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Default Re: THE project euler thread

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Originally Posted by Reincarnate View Post
There's nothing particularly interesting about floor function as far as I can tell -- that's just there to make it clear that the decimals need to be lopped off so that you can take the last 8 digits of the end result. The tough part is getting the right value for x^987654321 because the right value is heavily dependent on how precise x is -- but the level of precision you'd need is stupidly high.
Stupidly high is an understatement. You'd need several billion digits if you were to brute force it LOL.

in other words i cant solve this problem and it's pissing me the hell off
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