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Wednesday, 13 November 2013

Finding square numbers

Everyone knows how to extract the square root of any number
My proposal here is to find a number which has certain specialities but is also a perfect square number
For instance you are asked to find a number starting with six 2's and which is a perfect square.
With a little work of trial and error you can find it.
My research gave the number 222222674025 which is the square of 471405
But suppose I ask you to find a square number starting with five 2's.Try to do a little math and find the number.
Will it be smaller than 222222674025 shown by me earlier?

Friday, 1 November 2013

Collecting numbers for particular sums

Given below are 2 groups of numbers-
Group A-17,32,55,41,26,67,11,37
Group B-27,45,31,38,49,7
Collect 6 numbers from Group A for a sum S1 and 4 numbers from Group B for a sum S2,where S1/S2=2
You can find 3 solutions at least.Proceed

Friday, 25 October 2013

Prime pyramid-Adjacent primes

You are to work out a number pyramid starting with 1 number in the first row,2 in the second,3 in the third,4 in the fourth row and so on.Each row should start with digit 1 and end with the digit represented by the row,for example the 7th row should end with 7.The digits/numbers to be filled up in between should be such that each pair of adjacent numbers should sum up to a prime.A few rows are shown filled up below-
1-                       Sums involved  -nil
1,2                                             3
1,2,3                                          3,5
1,2,3,4                                       3,5,7
1,4,3,2,5                                    5,7,5,7
1,4,3,2,5,6                                 5,7,5,7,11
1,4,3,2,5,6,7                              5,7,5,7,11,13
1,6,7,4,3,2,5,8                           7,13,11,7,5,7,13
Try filling up subsequent rows.There could sometimes be more ways in respect the digits/numbers involved in the middle of each row.
It may not be easy when you proceed upto row 17,19 etc.


Wednesday, 23 October 2013

Surprise in sudoku-rejoinder

Were you able to fill up the sudoku grid shown by me?
The completed grid will be as shown below-(row-wise)
418 239 657
695 781 342
273 546 819
961 853 274
354 627 981
782 914 563
546 192 738
839 475 126
127 368 495
I have deliberately shown the digits in groups of three
There is a  surprise in rows 1,3,5,7 and 9 where you will notice an addition sum as follows-
418+239=657
273+546=819
354+627=981
546+192=738
127+368=495 

Wednesday, 16 October 2013

Probability for division of one number by another

Choose any number (A)between 10 and 1000.Remove the last digit in the same to get another number (B).For example if A is 456 ,B will be 45.What is the probability that A will be divisible by B?

Tuesday, 15 October 2013

A sudoku with a surprise

Here is the grid for filling up by you-should not be difficult-The cells which were left blank have been marked b-
bbbbb96bb
6b5b8bbb2
bbbb4bbb9
b6185bb7b
b5bbbbb8b
b8bb1456b
5bbb9bbbb
8bbb7b1b6
bb73bbbbb
Fill it up and find out what the surprise is. I cannot reveal it now as you will be able to fill up the grid more easily.

Sunday, 1 September 2013

Sums of 2 squares reading to totals 'c' and '2c'

If a number 'c' is a sum of 2 squares of say 'x' and 'y',can '2c' be also expressed as a sum of 2 different squares?
The answer is yes.
You have to work out (x+y) and (x-y) ,find their squares and add up.
We already have c=x^2+y^2
We now have (x+y)^2+(x-y)^2= (x^2+2xy+y^2)+(x^2-2xy+y^2)=2(x^2+y^2)=2c
Example-Let x=17 and y=9.So c=289+81=370
We also have (x+y)=26 and (x-y)=8.Their squares are 676 and 64 giving a total of 740 which is the same as '2c'.
As a corollary if we have three numbers x,y and z and their squares add upto 'c',we can express '4c' as the sum of 6 squares viz of x+y..x-y...y+z...y-z....z+x and z-x.