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2 neighbours create a square (Posted on 2021-08-19) Difficulty: 3 of 5
Concatenating two consecutive integers 183 and 184
we get a six-digit number 183184, equalling square of 428.
List similar pairs, below 500,000 (final product).

How about the same task with a pair of a consecutve numbers
in a decreasing order?
Please provide a similar list (same constraints).

No Solution Yet Submitted by Ady TZIDON    
Rating: 4.0000 (2 votes)

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re: Analytic Solution (ascending) | Comment 5 of 9 |
(In reply to Analytic Solution (ascending) by Brian Smith)

Awesome proof.


This explains a lot of patterns in https://oeis.org/A030467
(they leave out the leading zero solutions)

If 10^D+1 is prime, there are no solutions.  Since 11 and 101 are prime, the first solutions have three digit values of S.

If N is the number of prime factors, there will be 2^N-2 solutions
(again, unless some have leading zeros)  Thus there are 6 solutions for D=3: 1001=7*11*13
But only 2 for each for D=4, 5, 6, 7, 8

But for D=9, 10^D+1=7*11*13*19*52579 so we should see 30 solutions.  Interestingly there are only 20.  There must be a lot with leading zeros.  (S<sqrt(10^(9-1))=10000)

  Posted by Jer on 2021-08-20 09:24:16
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