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[VA] SRC #008 - 2021 is here !
01-03-2021, 09:11 PM
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With a brute force approach, I searched for the largest product of:

(2021/n)^n

Code:









Quickly got to 9.999e99 on my 15C, so switched to Free 42. 
Determined that the answer appeared to be in the 700-800 range 
for ā€œnā€ so wrote and ran this program:

HP42S

LBL VA2021
2021
RCL 00
/
RCL 00
Y^X
PSE
1
STO +00
GTO VA2021
RTN

resulting in:
7.781840369084335804554270907184552e322
when n= ~743

2021 / 743 = ~2.72, very close to e
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RE: [VA] SRC #008 - 2021 is here ! - Gene - 01-02-2021, 01:49 AM
RE: [VA] SRC #008 - 2021 is here ! - robve - 01-03-2021, 06:33 PM
RE: [VA] SRC #008 - 2021 is here ! - robve - 01-05-2021, 03:39 AM
RE: [VA] SRC #008 - 2021 is here ! - Dwight Sturrock - 01-03-2021 09:11 PM
RE: [VA] SRC #008 - 2021 is here ! - Gene - 01-04-2021, 05:56 PM
RE: [VA] SRC #008 - 2021 is here ! - Gene - 01-04-2021, 07:24 PM
RE: [VA] SRC #008 - 2021 is here ! - Gene - 01-06-2021, 02:54 PM
RE: [VA] SRC #008 - 2021 is here ! - EdS2 - 01-08-2021, 01:32 PM



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