> i got two answers, no need to have formula just trial and error using integrals 1 to 9 (following succession of order) to arrive to the sum of 100! in my first answer i just multiplied 2 integers and added the rest...total...100. un my 2nd anwer i multiplied 3 sets of integers and added the rest. See... its possible.. just had good luck..

Thanks for your work on the "proof" that it cannot be done.
>I copied
>it and will try to understand it when I have time to really
>sit down
>and digest it.
>
>Meanwhile I have tried a few more times (using excel for the
>arithmatic) without success, of course. The thing that
>keeps me at
>it is the fact that it was stated as a problem. This
>usually means
>there is a solution. And if so, I enjoy working at it.
>
>Whatever the outcome, it is fun.
>
>Besides the fact that ehop did not include the 9 in his
>"solution",
>I do not consider adding the 0 to be legit. I think the 0
>must be part of a number - either as the second digit of a
>two digit number, or as part of a decimal number.
>
>I have come as close as 99.9, but that is not hard.
>
>Jack