Challenge: Generate 24 in the X register / display

[Dwight Sturrock]

(09-08-2020 01:40 PM)Gene Wrote:  

(09-08-2020 12:04 AM)Dwight Sturrock Wrote:  HP42S, 5 steps:

4.9
ENTER
ENTER
X
IP

Gene: That does indeed generate 24, but does not satisfy the basic rule on the initial post.

"Using a single digit repeated 3 and only 3 times..."

4.9 is not a single digit between 0 and 9.

Oops, think I was sidetracked by the exception for PI.

HP42S, 6 steps using 4 three times:

OCT
4
ENTER
ENTER
X
+