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An Exponent Product And 98 Zeroes Puzzle (Posted on 2007-10-27) Difficulty: 3 of 5
Find the positive integer pair (m, n) such that m*n is the minimum and the last 98 digits in mm*nn are all zeroes.

Note: 99th digit from the right in mm*nn is not zero.

See The Solution Submitted by K Sengupta    
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I try to find solution like this :

n=2^a*5^b and m=2^c*5^d,

but after a lot of calculus i can't find these kind of solution.

So i suppose the solution are like n=a*2^b and m=c*5^d

and i found : n=49*2=98 and m=21*5=105 

(m,n) = (105,98)

I'm not sure if this pair provide minimum for m*n!

 


  Posted by Chesca Ciprian on 2007-10-27 14:57:03
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