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

License check

We seem to be following the license from the original site, (although I couldn't find the problem number to add a link).
- Note: I am not the uthor of thie task, just checking the license. --Paddy3118 (talk) 22:51, 15 January 2020 (UTC)

I've found the problem number which is 686. --PureFox (talk) 23:21, 15 January 2020 (UTC)

I was just about to add the (home page) information.   I had originally phrased the problem much differently, but then it seemed to be more confusing and somewhat unclear, so I went with the original wording and phrasing that someone had paraphrased.   I tried to find the problem on that website, but I couldn't find   (I must have mis-remembered some keyword/keywords because I couldn't locate it via my search engine, other than it was on that site.     -- Gerard Schildberger (talk) 23:29, 15 January 2020 (UTC)

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. --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.     -- Gerard Schildberger (talk) 00:07, 16 January 2020 (UTC)