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Prime divisors (Posted on 2005-01-04) Difficulty: 3 of 5
6300846559 is such that 6 is divisible by 2; 63, by 3; 630, by 5; 6300, by 7; and, in general, if you take its first N digits, it will be divisible by the N-th prime.

There is only one other such 10 digit number: can you find it?

See The Solution Submitted by e.g.    
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re(2): Solution (VB program) | Comment 4 of 13 |
(In reply to re: Solution (VB program) by Charlie)

I have tried recursive logic in the past, but my desktop system seems to run into "stacking" problems. If I were running on a mainframe, that would not be a problem.


  Posted by Penny on 2005-01-04 17:23:43
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