Er.... Never mind. My matches got fired up.
( Was trying to make the number 9 to the 99th power!)
lesdmd
Loc: Middleton Wi via N.Y.C. & Cleveland
Time for cheese to post his definitive solution?
after noticing someone else's answer I went back to see how they arrived at their conclusion of 5118,
I arrived at 8118. by moving the top and bottom matches from the Zero to the left making the five an eight.
TriX
Loc: Raleigh, NC
Yes, I can see that now - I was assuming it was constrained to 3 digits, but it doesn’t specify that.
8115^11 (8115 to the 11 power)
A round of applause to SKATZ for getting the only correct answer so far: 51181
Here’s the solution.
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