paper-machine comments on New Monthly Thread: Bragging - Less Wrong

30 Post author: Joshua_Blaine 11 August 2013 05:50PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 12 August 2013 04:03:31PM *  4 points [-]

A number mod 10^n yields the last n digits of the number.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 12 August 2013 04:13:54PM *  1 point [-]

Aaah. it was just saying how much to output. Phew. I was trying to figure out what 10^80 could have to do with 3^^^3 and failing, hard. So, it's a great relief that the answer is, 'nothing'.

Comment author: Kindly 12 August 2013 04:37:59PM 0 points [-]

Technically, I have not used the fact that the number in question is 3^^^3 -- I am treating it as 3^^X, where X is very large. So for huge numbers of digits, this will not give the correct answer, but I don't think it's practical to compute that many digits, in any case.

Should I explain how everything else works?

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 12 August 2013 06:08:54PM 0 points [-]

Nah, I just figured that the named functions were something relevant, and I'm satisfied with that level of knowledge at this point.