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- From: bhonsle@bhonsle.iss.nus.sg (Shailendra K Bhonsle)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: u(v^n)w prime puzzle
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.035406.29415@nuscc.nus.sg>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 03:54:06 GMT
- References: <1992Aug19.024106.25588@nuscc.nus.sg> <1992Aug19.173515.19841@wri.com>
- Sender: bhonsle@bhonsle (Shailendra K Bhonsle)
- Organization: Institute of Systems Science, NUS, Singapore
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- 1751 Info on GRE testing guides [9] eppler@frith.msu.eduIn article <1992Aug19.173515.19841@wri.com>, roach@bikini.wri.com (Kelly Roach) writes:
- |> In article <1992Aug19.024106.25588@nuscc.nus.sg>
- |> bhonsle@bhonsle.iss.nus.sg (Shailendra K Bhonsle) writes:
- |> > The approach is to take a integer x (let's say prime integer) and prove
- |> that by repeating
- |> > v one gets a string u(v^m)w (for positive integer m) which is divisible
- |> by x.
- |> >
- |> > Let's take x=9 (because it has nice properties for base 10 numbers).
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- |>
- |> OK, but x=9 is not prime.
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- |>
- |> > then for a number "uv"(ie. 10u+v)
- |> > uv=u+v (mod 9)
- |> >
- |> >
- |> > In our problem definition:
- |> >
- |> > let u+w=m(mod 9)
- |> >
- |> > Now it is possible to find a n for given v such that
- |> >
- |> > v^n==n.v== 9-m (mod 9) ==> simple number theory
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- |>
- |>
- |> I see some of the techniques I'm expecting to see in a
- |> correct proof. But my puzzle is not solved so easily. What
- |> would happen to your proof if v is divisible by 3 and m is not
- |> divisible by 3? Solving n.v== 9-m (mod 9) for n will be
- |> impossible. As a particular case, consider
- |>
- |> u="56",v="0",w="39"
- |> 5639, 56039, 560039, 5600039, 56000039, 560000039
- |>
- |> Any example with v="0" cannot be handled by your proof.
- |>
- |> Kelly
- |>
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- |>
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- I concur. The proof is incomplete because any instance with v=3.x {x=0,1,2...}
- will not work. In all cases it will work.
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- I think the complete solution can be given by considering divisibility by prime
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- p="uv" {ie. p=u*10^|w| + w } where |w|=number of digits in w.
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- Shailendra.
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