Four Fours

Please don't baffle me with sums! I think I have dyscalculia.

I'm sure I have it too........

"I don't understand your 9 either!"

sqrt4 =2
2*4 =8
4/4 =1
8+1 =9

alternatively:

9= 4+4+4/4

crun Another question.... So, we can add, subtract, multiply, divide, use the square root and also this factorial thingy but I'm just wondering if there are any other 'processes' we can use that I'm not aware of?

Other than recurring decimals that I mentioned at the top, that's pretty much it apart from powers. You don't need to keep thinking in terms of just adding though, for example a much simpler way of getting ten is:

10= 44/4.4

(Hint: That ought to give you 11 very easily.)

My head hurts.
I thought the answer was going to be 16!

How did you come up with 16?

10*4.4 =44

I didn`t even understand the question. I was complete rubbish at maths, wasn`t even allowed to take my maths GCE O level, because of the dismal mark I got in the mock exam!

I didn`t even understand the question. I was complete rubbish at maths, wasn`t even allowed to take my maths GCE O level, because of the dismal mark I got in the mock exam!

Ooops!

the only power you can use is 4 as to write any other power 2,3 etc would require writing a superscript 2 or 3.

I've used a power other than 4, but there may be an alternative way that avoids it. For most of the numbers there are umpteen answers.

I dont know what superscript means.

I am still struggling with 11, but dont mind persevering.

4² this is how 4 squared would be written (4x4) The small 2 is superscript.

Superscript is a small sized text added at the top right of the main full sized text. (Subscript is bottom right).

How did you manage that pompa? I was trying to do a demo by cutting and pasting from MS Word, but it didn't work.

I c/p from OpenOffice, but I cannot find a superscript 4.

You don't actually need any powers until 60.

I give up on 11.

11= 4/.4+4/4

If you ring the changes on that theme it will get you all the way to 18.

I don't do numbers. Maths to me is just gibberish, the way letters are to dyslexics. This seemed very important when I was 16 but never has since.

apricot I was just about to post "I don't do numbers" when I saw you had beaten me too it.

I'll stick with words, if that's ok. I like words, they (usually) don't make your brain hurt.

12 = 4! - 4 - 4 - 4

crun how did you come up with 16?

The OP title is Four Fours
Doesn't 4x4 =16?

Or not? now
A long time since I took GCE 'O' level (and passed)

I thought this thread was going to be about times tables before I read the OP rosequartz...