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- From: mueller@schaefer.math.wisc.edu (Carl Douglas Mueller)
- Subject: Re: Number Puzzle
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.181303.5953@schaefer.math.wisc.edu>
- Reply-To: mueller@schaefer.UUCP (Carl Douglas Mueller)
- Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin Dept. of Mathematics
- References: <1992Nov18.152111.27777@schaefer.math.wisc.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 18:13:03 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.152111.27777@schaefer.math.wisc.edu> mueller@math.wisc.edu writes:
- >Find a number ending in 7 such that when this number is multiplied by 7
- >the resulting number consists of the same digits in the same order but
- >with the 7 moved to the front. That is:
- >
- >7*(abc...xyz7) = 7abc...xyz
- >
- >where the abc...xyz is some string of digits (you'll have to figure out
- >how many digits).
- >
- >After solving this one (and finding the EASY way to solve it) I extended
- >the puzzle to numbers other than 7. ie
- >
- >N*(abc...xyzN) = Nabc...xyz.
- >
- >I've found the numbers for N = 1 (trivial) up to N=9.
- >
- >Carl Mueller (mueller@math.wisc.edu)
-
- I should add that this works for numbers bigger than 9 if you allow leading
- 0's. For example, the answer for 10 is 010 ... 10(010)=100.
- For 11 the answer is:
- 010009099181073703366696997270245677888989990900818926296633303002729754322111.
-
- That's as far as I'm willing to go. I should also add that no calculator or
- computer is needed to solve this puzzle (at least for numbers up to 11). This
- may be a hint as to the solution.
-
- Carl Mueller
-