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Concatenation equals Sum of Squares (Posted on 2020-12-01) Difficulty: 3 of 5
Two positive integers, a and b, are of 4 digits or less.

For what (a,b) pairs is it true that the sum of their squares is equal to their concatenation?

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Solution re: soln | Comment 2 of 5 |
(In reply to soln by Steven Lord)

It's not always 10,000 that you need to multiply by; it could be a smaller power of ten for shorter second numbers, to do a concatenation.


for a=1:9999
    f=10;
    for b=1:9999
        if b==10 || b==100 || b==1000
            f=f*10;
        end
        c=f*a+b;
        if c==a^2+b^2
            disp([a b a^2 b^2 c])
        end
    end
end

      a           b         a^2         b^2     a^2+b^2
     10           1         100           1         101
    10         100         100       10000       10100
    12          33         144        1089        1233
    88          33        7744        1089        8833
   588        2353      345744     5536609     5882353
   990         100      980100       10000      990100
  9412        2353    88585744     5536609    94122353

  Posted by Charlie on 2020-12-01 12:48:00
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