Re: The next exercise

[Emanuel Berg]

Michael Heerdegen wrote:

> The first three decimal digits (from the left) of 1001^1000
> - i.e. one thousand and one to the one thousand's power,
>
>   1001*1001*...*1001
>   \________________/
>           ^
>      1000 factors
>
> are of course:
>
>  (a) 2 7 1, the first three digits of Euler's number e

I suspect some trap here but okay then, I'll bite

(substring (format "%d" (expt 1001 1000)) 0 3)

which is 271

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