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.