Talk:First power of 2 that has leading decimal digits of 12: Difference between revisions

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::: I wonder what the significance is of saying that: "You are also given that p(123,45)=12710."? It's not as if it's going to take a long time to calculate whatever method is used. --[[User:PureFox|PureFox]] ([[User talk:PureFox|talk]]) 23:49, 15 January 2020 (UTC)
 
:::: The reasoning behind that (I believe) was to give the programmer an answer so that it could be used for verification of their programming solution to check if their calculation was working correctly for a "modest" (or easy) expression/formula.     -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 00:07, 16 January 2020 (UTC)