My code swaps m's and p's as you described. I also agree about the prospects for this number system. In any case, I wish you and others in the Cody community a happy new year and good health in pppppppppxpppppppppppppppppppppxpp.
>> I don't understand why singular answers are flagged as spam.
Hey, you gotta nip these things in the bud. If people submit one solution, they might escalate to two. Do we really want to live in a world like that? :-)
It is amusing to think of a zero-tolerance Cody world in which thousands of problems sit on the server uncontaminated by solutions.
Thanks Christian. You're right that the current description doesn't ensure uniqueness. How about, "If m, x, and p, are switched to 0, 1, and 2, respectively, for positive n and 2, 1, and 0 for negative n, then the resulting base-10 number would be as small as possible."? Is there a less clumsy way to say that?
I added the requirement that the FD primes appear in the factorization at most once. This requirement resembles a difference between the Fermi-Dirac and the Bose-Einstein distributions of particles.