Talk:Sum to 100: Difference between revisions
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::: I used the word '''sum''' because it was already used in the task's preamble and the word was also defined (in context). Introducing another word (integer) would, I think, just belabor the effort to have another version of the '''sum''' word. The next number (after '''211''') that can't be expressed within the rules is '''219'''. Another example of a sum that can't be expressed is '''5791'''. I'm not sure how to demonstrate/explain its inexpressibility other than to show (display) ''all'' the possible mathematical expressions that '''don't''' (can't) express the '''5791''' sum. This would be somewhat of a strange proof (and voluminous), but not unheard of. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 02:29, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
:::: FWIW my experience as a reader is that using the word 'sum' at that point certainly proved confusing at first reading, and even now feels distractingly odd. 211 is certainly a '''number''' – a member of the set of integers – but the point you are making about it seems to be precisely that it is '''not''' a sum within this system. [[User:Hout|Hout]] ([[User talk:Hout|talk]]) 02:38, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
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