Is it cheating to use a calculator 4 a decimal addition in trial
Decimal like 1 + 2 + 4 or smth like that
Generally, we allow testificates (players taking a trial) to work things out on paper, but not with additional tools.
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Nooo bcuz idint know and in a big addition in decimal 4 calculating the biggest num that 6 bit can reach 1+2+4+8+16+32 i used a calculator bcuz it was decimal i thought it was ok And i didn’t even know that it’s cheating 
and thats it. I later talked to ender_noob and he said it should be allowed
And what now am i gonna loose builder or smth and that be bad cuz im nearly done with my cpu
So whats gonna happen 
I wouldn’t worry about it
Oh ok I hope it’s not that bad since I didn’t know😔
Tbh builders should know All 2^n up to like 2^16 (and 64-1 should be quite simple lmao)
Just to clarify for anyone else reading this in the future: We now have an explicit rule against external tools being used during trials and it may result in punishment if you are found cheating with such a method. In this specific case, this was not a written rule and staff opted to vote against any punishment.
Basically: Don’t use external tools during a trial and you’ll be fine
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1+2+4+8+16+32
You’re approaching this wrong anyway. The sum of all powers of 2 up to 2^N equals 2^(N+1). You can easily see this intuitively by considering a line segment, starting at one end, and dividing the remaining space in half repeatedly. The length of the whole line segment is the sum of all the pieces you’ve made.
In your case you only want to sum the integer powers and ignore those <1, and since we’ve already shown that the sum of all powers <1 must equal 1, you can just subtract 1 from 2^(N+1) to get your answer.
In general, any time you find yourself doing a repetitive operation on numbers with a specific pattern, you should be asking yourself… “What would Gauss do?”
https://www.americanscientist.org/article/gausss-day-of-reckoning
While the information you provided is useful in that case, I’m under the impression they just meant those are the possible place values they’d need to sum during conversion from Binary to Decimal (since that’s asked during Builder trials). There isn’t generally a requirement to sum up powers of 2 explicitly like that during Builder trials.
yea ik now u can also just 2^32 and get 64 and the 64 - 1
lol ik now but uhh i was kinda sleep deprive atm
I’m going to go ahead and close this now.