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Making any integer with four 2s (2025)

Hacker News | Nov 7, 2026 | germanrabbit

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One of my favorite examples involves complex numbers: So the fun doesn't end even after one graduates from university! Until by finding a general solution for every number. four. Note that the entity n doesn't actually appear anywhere - it's just a helper to count the number of repeated square roots.

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