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Re: The next exercise

From: Michael Heerdegen
Subject: Re: The next exercise
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2022 22:29:54 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) 
Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> writes:

> I suspect some trap here but okay then

I hope I'm not that bad.

> I'll bite
>
> (substring (format "%d" (expt 1001 1000)) 0 3)
>
> which is 271

Indeed!

Seems a lot of people already know that `expt' and even `format' alone
are totally able to handle the task.

Michael.
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