Friday puzzle -- Team effort 2,3,7, &8

Bingo!

That is, IMHO, the best solution. The temptation is to look only at binary operators, and forget unary ones.

I've seen one other solution, although it seems artificial to me, using an "operator" of "floor division" (the integral portion of the result of a division, what Excel refers to as the "quotient" function, but I would never call that a quotient). That might be standard in programming, but not in math. Using that (with "//" as its notation, 22=((7+8)*3)//2.

Re: Beautimous ;-)

It is an mathematical operation that I thought of, but did not think that the 8!/7! which yields 8 was relevant to the answer that we were searching for. Good find....

Not a programming concept

Carl Friedrich Gauss introduced the square-bracket notation for the 'Floor' function in 1808. That's 7 years before the birth of the first programmer (Ada Lovelace).

Interesting

I stand [sit] corrected.