Treebeard's Stumper 13 Feb 98

Crunching 1998

Here's an update of last year's vacation challenge. Use just the four digits 1, 9, 9, 8 in that order, with parentheses and any standard math operations, to make all the numbers 1 to 100. For starters,

1 = 1+(9-9)*8	(* is times)
2 = (1^9)+9-8	(^ is the power of)
3 = -1+sqrt(9)+(9-8)	(square root)
4 = -1+sqrt(9)!-(9-8)	(factorial, 3!=1x2x3=6)

Last year, we managed to get all the numbers using the digits of 1997. I'm sure this will not be possible in 2000. How far can we get this year?

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