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::: Thanks. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] ([[User talk:Paddy3118|talk]]) 18:01, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
 
== First power of 2 that has leading decimal digits of 12 ==
 
To (re-)use an old saying, "now you're cooking with gas!".   Quite a speed-up, eh?     -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 19:58, 15 January 2020 (UTC)
 
: Thanks. I was horrified by the thought, to use base conversion on such big numbers. --[User:Horst.h][[User:Horst.h|Horst.h]] ([[User talk:Horst.h|talk]]) 20:17, 15 January 2020 (UTC)
 
:: Don't feel bad, I went down the same road, but much slower.   When I realized that I couldn't compute (express) the (last example) power of two on my PeeCee, I had to re-invent the program.     -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 20:22, 15 January 2020 (UTC)
 
::: Many thanks for the pointer on how best to do this :)
 
::: I was going down a complete blind alley before! --[[User:PureFox|PureFox]] ([[User talk:PureFox|talk]]) 21:09, 15 January 2020 (UTC)
 
== Edit mishap? ==
Is this supposed to mean something or should (most of) it just be deleted?
https://rosettacode.org/mw/index.php?title=Talk:Minimum_positive_multiple_in_base_10_using_only_0_and_1&diff=prev&oldid=298071
--[[User:Petelomax|Pete Lomax]] ([[User talk:Petelomax|talk]]) 13:39, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
:mishap! Sometimes my fingers are out of CRTL-V
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