Your objective is to change one constant in the following equation so that it equates to true.
Rules:
- No changing the equals sign.
- The numbers are correct.
- There only needs to be one change in order to make the equation true.
142 / 2930 = 142
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Sign up to join this communityYour objective is to change one constant in the following equation so that it equates to true.
Rules:
142 / 2930 = 142
You can change
the division operator (
/
) to the modulo operator (%
)
The resulting equation
142 % 2930 = 142
is certainly true.
If you can move up the 0 to become an exponent, you get:
$$ 142 / 239^0 = 142 $$
This works since $239^0 = 1$.
A slightly different answer just to add on:
The division symbol could be moved over top of 2930 to appear as a strikethrough. If this is done, $142=142$ with some extra numbers that had to be crossed out and are ignored.
You can also replace the space after / by a second / You then have 142 with a line comment, which, when casted into a boolean gives true as it is a nonzero number