SOLUTION: Could you help me figure out this problem:Write the smallest positive number you can make that is less than 1 by using each of the following didgets only once:8923?

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: Could you help me figure out this problem:Write the smallest positive number you can make that is less than 1 by using each of the following didgets only once:8923? This question is from textbook Everyday Mathamatics

Answer by fractalier(6550) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
well a simple answer is 2/893, another is .2389...but I can think of much smaller numbers...
How about the eighty-ninth root of two all divided by three?
Or how about two-thirds to the 89th power?
Or .2 to the 893rd power?
To be frank, the problem is not clear as to what you can or cannot use...