[Darkness]

Hehe So one would assume. Ah well, I'll just cry about my inability to figure it out while someone else does XD

[Phalanx]

ive seen it but cant remember answer either

[Darkness]

Yeah. Gotta hate how that happens. *baps memory*

[Ratty]

Aw. I might give it a few more hours and then post a hint.

[Rylkan]

Interesting. Didn't get a chance to check the new one until this morning, so hold off on that hint. Time to actually use my brain.

[Rylkan]

I would say move two match sticks, the top and bottom of one of the zeroes, and then form a letter v with them. so you have 700001v let's say. Since v is not specified, it can be as large as you want, so it can be arbitrarily larger than 1,000,000,000.

Not in the rules against that. But probably not what you're looking for.

[Darkness]

... XD

That's tricky

[Rylkan]

Hey, if people can make fences around themselves and say they are on the outside, a dummy variable should be allowed too.

[Rylkan]

Oh, and if there is an issue with it having to be digital in shape too (not specified, though ) you can make an arbitrary shape that acts as your variable.

[Ratty]

rofl. I had thought about mentioning that, like not putting x at the end either, but nope. That's not right. xD

Nice try though.

Lets just say that there's another clever way to make something much larger than 1,000,000,000.

[Rylkan]

Aww, come on, if it wasn't stated, you KNOW you want to give me a point for it.

::will sleep on it and try and figure out the real answer while at work::

[Ratty]

Not necessarily. I mean, i'm looking for ONE answer which will -always- be larger than 1,000,000,000. Your answer isn't.

I don't see what value you've given 'v' with the matchsticks, so it's null and void as far as I can see.

So nyah. xD

But really, if I were in a good mood, i'd probably have given you the point. xD

[Possessed Toaster]

I know the answer!




...

Hint time, I think.

HINT: For the end result, you have to look at the matches upside-down!

That's a pretty huge hint, especially if you know anything about big numbers. Should come to you straight away.

[Darkness]

Sounds like it might be a word or something XD

Hey, after all... if you type 0.1134 into your calculator and look at it upside down, it's hello! You can write lots on calculators upside down

But I don't want to think right now. If someone hasn't gotten it by tomorrow, I'll think about it some more XD

[Ratty]

Yessum. Words are good. Big things, few letters. Think harder.