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- From: moeller@gwdgv1.gwdg.de
- Subject: puzzling squares
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- Organization: GWDG Goettingen, F.R.Germany
- Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 00:29:37 GMT
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- Have you ever seen a (rational) square number which,
- when written in decimal notation, has the same sequence of digits
- left and right of the decimal point?
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- To my surprise, I noticed that such numbers do exist, but are *large*.
- The smallest one I know is the square of
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- ((10^136 + 1)/17) * 6 * 10^(-68)
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- To prove that this is indeed the smallest such number,
- one had to show that (10^(2*k) + 1) is square-free, for (2*k) < 136.
- Does the current state of the "art of factorization" allow for this check?
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- Wolfgang J. Moeller, GWDG, D-3400 Goettingen, F.R.Germany | Disclaimer ...
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