Saturday, January 23, 2010

Wiggles general...

Consider the wiggle expression 24354;6576.  One way to calculate its value is to telescope from left and right towards the face value superdigit.  Telescoping from the left :

2×4 = 8,

8+3 =11,

11×5 = 55,

55+4; = 59;

Telescoping from the right :

6÷7 = 67,

67+5 = 567 = 417,

417÷6= 4142.

Combining these, we get

24354;6576 = 594142.

We shall eventually see a more efficient process for the fractional part of such problems than telescoping from the right, but not just yet.

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