Date: Dec 9, 2012 1:58 PM
Author: Wasell
Subject: Re: No Putnam spoilers please

On Sat, 8 Dec 2012 19:13:02 +0000, in article 
<1tj7wWW+E5wQFwvR@invalid.uk.co.demon.merlyn.invalid>, Dr J R Stockton 
wrote:

> Can anyone (or more) please provide here the last ten decimal digits 
(in
> order) of  ((3^349)-1)/2, freshly and independently calculated and not
> copied from any other medium, and not using my LongCalc or VastCalc?

$ perl -Mbigint -e 'print substr( ((3**349)-1)/2, -10 )'
7379284041