From: utzoo!decvax!wivax!mccluske Newsgroups: net.math Title: 4 4's problem Article-I.D.: wivax.153 Posted: Sun Aug 15 14:13:04 1982 Received: Fri Aug 20 01:08:08 1982 Has there been any interest lately in the 4 4's problem? You know, the one where you use exactly 4 4's and any other mathematical symbols to form integers, e.g. (sqr(.4...)+4!+4!)/sqr(.4...) = 73 Martin Gardner mentioned this problem in Mathematical Games several years ago. I am wondering what elegant computer methods have been found to come up with an expression, given a particular integer.