Henry Ernest Dudeney/Modern Puzzles/58 - The Two Fours

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 * The Two Fours
 * The point [of the Four Fours puzzle] is to express all possible whole numbers with four fours (no more and no fewer), using the various arithmetical signs.


 * Thus:
 * and:
 * and:


 * All numbers up to $112$ inclusive may be solved, using only the signs for addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, square root, decimal points, and the factorial sign $4!$ which means $1 \times 2 \times 3 \times 4$, or $24$, but $113$ is impossible.


 * It is necessary to discover which numbers can be formed with one four, with two fours, and with three fours, and to record these for combination as required.


 * It is the failure to find some of these that leads to so much difficulty.


 * For example, I think very few discover that $64$ can be expressed with only two fours.


 * Can the reader do it?