How many ways can you write the value of 8964?

Answer 1

Infinitely many.

0 + 8964

1 + 8963

2 + 8962 and so on.

Then consider numbers to 1 decimal place

0.1 + 8963.9

0.2 + 8963.8 and so on.

Numbers to 2 decimal places, 3 dp, and so on, all the way to infinitely many decimal places.

These are the sums of two numbers. You can have sums of 3, 4, 5, ... numbers.

Then there are products, exponents, and many other functions.