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String of 3s (Posted on 2025-05-16) Difficulty: 3 of 5
A number written as a string of 32013 digit 3s. No other digit appears. Find the highest power of 3 which divides this number.

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Some Thoughts my conjecture | Comment 5 of 6 |
Playing with a full precision calculator https://www.mathsisfun.com/calculator-precision.html
The number with 3 3's is divisible by 3^2 
The  number with 9 3's is divisible by 3^3
The  number with 27 3's is divisible by 3^4 
The  number with 81 3's is divisible by 3^5
The  number with 243 3's is divisible by 3^6
The  number with 729 3's is divisible by 3^7
The  number with 3^7 3's is divisible by 3^8
From which I conjecture
The  number with (3^n) 3's is divisible by 3^(n+1)

Our number has 3^2013 3's so my conjecture is it's divisible by 3^2104.
So my answer is 2014



  Posted by Jer on 2025-05-17 17:24:56
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