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Funny way to divide by seven (Posted on 2018-01-12) Difficulty: 2 of 5
"This special big number of mine allows me to get a correct answer of dividing it by 7 by simply erasing its second digit..." - declared Danny.
After a minute or two his father, W.G. quipped: "I know what digit was erased!"

Do you?
Please post your reasoning.

See The Solution Submitted by Ady TZIDON    
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Solution computer finding of numbers that can be divided that way | Comment 1 of 3
105
1050
10500
105000
1050000

so the removed digit is zero.

from

DefDbl A-Z
Dim crlf$


Private Sub Form_Load()
 Form1.Visible = True
 
 
 Text1.Text = ""
 crlf = Chr$(13) + Chr$(10)
 
 For m = 10 To 1000000
   p = 7 * m
   ms$ = LTrim(Str(m))
   ps$ = LTrim(Str(p))
   If Len(ps) > Len(ms) Then
    If Left(ms, 1) = Left(ps, 1) And Mid(ms, 2) = Mid(ps, 3) Then
      Text1.Text = Text1.Text & ps & crlf
    End If
   End If
   DoEvents
 Next
  
 Text1.Text = Text1.Text & crlf & " done"
  
End Sub


  Posted by Charlie on 2018-01-12 19:33:39
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