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Repeating squares (Posted on 2020-09-09) Difficulty: 3 of 5
A repeating number is a number such that the first half of the digits are the same as the second half of the digits. For example, 2020 is a repeating number. What is the smallest repeating number that is also a square?

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(In reply to Solution by Larry)

Nice work, I had a similar thought but you beat me to it.  So I took your number 8264462810082644628100 and went over to the OEIS.  That gave me A092118: Biperiod squares: square numbers whose digits repeat twice in order.  Your number is the 7th smallest value according to the OEIS.


Also of note A102567: Numbers n such that n concatenated with itself is a biperiod square. (Just the repeating half of the square number) and A106497: Numbers whose square is the concatenation of two identical numbers, i.e., of the form NN. (These are the square roots of the repeating squares)

  Posted by Brian Smith on 2020-09-09 13:02:19
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