34! = 295 232 799 $$9 604 140 847 618 609 643 5$$ 000 000
Insert the missing digits.
The sum of the showing digits is 139, which is 4 mod 9. 34! is a multiple of 9, so the added digits must total 5, mod 9.
The sum of the odd-positioned digits is 80, and that of the even positions is 59. The difference is 21, one less than a multiple of 11. Each of the two 2-digit hidden areas has its left position in an even position of the number as a whole, and of course the right position in an odd position of the number as a whole. We need to increase the difference to 22 or 33 (or other multiple of 11).
The numbers below 34 include six multiples of 5 including one that's a multiple of 5^2, so the factorial has exactly 7 trailing zeros, making the last of the $'s a zero, but not the next-to-last.
Calling the first pair of $'s AB and the last C0 (that's a zero):
A+B+C could total 5 or 14 or 23.
A and C are in even positions, and increases in them lead to decreases in the difference of 21 in odd-vs-even. B is in an odd position and an increase in that leads to an increase in the difference. At the start they have counted zero toward the sum or difference.
C must be even as 34! has more factors that are 2 than that are 5. Again, it's not zero.
But also, the 2-digit number formed by 5C (concatenation) must be divisible by 4 by the same excess of the prime factor 2 compared to 5. Likewise the last three digits, either 5C0 or 35C must be divisible by 8 due to the plethora of excess 2 as a factor.
Based on div. by 9
Value of C Values of A+B
2 3, 12
4 1, 10
6 8, 17
8 6, 15
520 and 352 are both divisible by 8, so C=2 is OK.
540 is not divisible by 8, so C=4 is not OK.
356 is not divisible by 8, so C=6 is out.
580 is not divisible by 8, so C=8 is out.
So C must equal 2 and A+B must be equal to 3 or 12, by divisibility-by-9 rules.
A + C - B must be congruent to 10 mod 11.
0 + 2 - 3 works.
1 + 2 - 2 does not.
2 + 2 - 1 does not.
3 + 2 - 0 does not.
If C is 2 and A+B is 3, making B=3 and A=0 results in divisibility by 11.
If A+B were 12, A+2-(12-A)=2A-10, congruent to 10 mod 11 would require A=10 at least, but A is only one decimal digit.
So
AB = 03 and C = 2, and, again, the digit after C is zero.
The result is verified via extended precision:
>> factorial(sym(34))
ans =
295232799039604140847618609643520000000
Also, a calculator could have gotten AB:
2.95232799039605 x 10^38
then merely one of the divisibility rules would have been sufficient to get C.
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Posted by Charlie
on 2022-05-11 11:40:02 |