Questions tagged [number-theory]
A mathematical puzzle whose solution is heavily based on the arithmetic properties of the integers. General number theory questions are off-topic but can be asked on Mathematics Stack Exchange.
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Invert the numbers [duplicate]
I have an array of numbers containing 0 and 1 only and you are given a a constant C . You have to invert all the 0's to 1's by taking exactly C number of elements . What is the max number of 1's we ...
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Frobenius coin problem variation
Suppose you are give $n$ currency notes from $k$ to $k+n$
i.e $k, k+1,k+2.....k+n$
Where $k,n>0$
It's asked the total number of denomination of money that can't be formed using any number of ...
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number that can be formed by adding a pair of consecutive numbers [duplicate]
Suppose i have two consecutive number 3 and 4.
so i can form all numbers as
3 , 6, 9, ...(all multiples of 3)
4 , 8, 12,...(all multiples of 4)
also we pick any numbers from these list and add ...
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Explain the relations between the numbers in the following pattern
This is the accurate format of the pattern.
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How many ordered pairs (a,b) satisfy a^2=b^3+1, where a and b are integers? [closed]
(A)2
(B)3
(C)4
(D)5
I got 2 pairs (0,-1), and (3,2), but the correct answer is 5.
Can somebody help?
Thanks in advance!
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If $a$ and $b$ are two odd distinct prime number and if $a>b$, then $a^2-b^2$ can never be divided by [closed]
(A) 13
(B) 11
(C) 17
(D) None of the above
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Let M and N be single-digit integers. If the product 2M5 x 13N is divisible by 36, how many ordered pairs (M,N) are possible? [closed]
Let M and N be single-digit integers. If the product 2M5 x 13N is divisible by 36, how many ordered pairs (M,N) are possible?
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I tried it by reducing 36 into its positive factors (1,2,3,...
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A king was born in a year that was a perfect square, lived a perfect square number of years, and also died in a year that was a perfect square
In which year could he have been born?
(A) 1936
(B) 1764
(C) 1600
(D) 1444
The answer's (C). Why?
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Why did this prime-sequence puzzle not work?
While attacking a recent puzzle (whose solution ended up being entirely different from what I was trying), I was inspired to create a number-sequence puzzle with a sequence $(p_n)$ of primes where the ...
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Number sequence puzzle; 2, 10, 44 (+2 hints)
Predict the next three members of the sequence below and explain what the relationship is.
2, 10, 44, 1012, 248,
This number sequence does not appear in the Online Encyclopedia of Integer ...
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Find the immediate square dancing neighbors, they dance together to perfect square
We live in a community of houses sequentially numbered from 1 to 100. We all love square dancing but only two immediate neighbors are joy to watch. If you concatenate their house numbers, it forms a ...
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We are two immediate neighbors who forged our own powers to form concatenated relationship. Who are we?
Our concatenated number is $ \overline{ABAC}, $ where $ A, B, C $ are all positive digits (1 - 9).
Our relationship is
$$ \overline{ABAC} = A^A + B^B + A^A + C^C $$
Who are we?
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SafeCracker #2 - The Mission Continues
Thanks to an alert StackE user, we were able to get the first safe open.
Mission Details
This next safe is in a former employee's house. He is gone for now, so we have no time to spare.
We weren't ...
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Double or Take game
Double or Take is a two-player number game. Alice starts by selecting any positive integer. Bob's options are to:
subtract a positive perfect square
subtract a positive perfect cube, or
double the ...
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Father and Son and Grandsons
The sum of the ages of a father, his son, and his two grandsons is 181. The father´s age has a common divisor greater than 1 with the ages of each of his three descendants, but not two of the latter ...
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Swap — A Puzzle I Created
This puzzle is called Swap. Let's find out why!
Suppose you are given a random $\rm N\times N$ matrix (grid) with all the integers from $1$ to $\rm N^2$ each belonging in every grid square (a.k.a. ...
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What number + 1 equals itself? [closed]
Answer in numerical form.
The answer is not an integer.
The answer is in string form.
The answer is not my love life...
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An Accountant Seeks the Help of a Mathematician
The accountant complaints to the mathematician:
“I lent money to five other faculty members and still haven’t been paid back. You are one of them; the other four owe me 12 dollars altogether, but ...
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Consecutive integers around a circle
Find a block of positive consecutive integers that can be placed around a circle in some order so that any two adjacent numbers always have a common divisor greater than 1.
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The Legend of Four
As far as I know, all numbers have a root of 4. What I mean by this is as follows:
Starting with any number, for example 384, I take the number of letters in that number. Then I repeat this process ...
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Digit sums of successive integers
For a natural number $x$ both, the digit sum of $x$ and the digit sum of $x+1$ are multiples of $7$. What is the smallest possible $x$?
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Can the sum, difference and product of 2 numbers be perfect squares? [closed]
If we take 2 numbers $x$ and $y$ such that $x>y>0$ and , can $x + y$, $x - y$ and $xy$ all be perfect squares?
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Can you have the harmonic, geometric, arithmetic and quadratic mean of 2 numbers all being integers? [closed]
I created this problem looking at the hm-gm-am-qm inequality (hm = $\frac{2xy}{x + y}$, gm = $\sqrt{xy}$, am = $\frac{x + y}{2}$, qm = $\sqrt{\frac{x^2 + y^2}{2}}$ and hm $\le$ gm $\le$ am $\le$ qm).
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Create the numbers 1 - 30 using the digits 2, 0, 1, 9 in this particular order!
Inspired by the last year's "2018 four 4s challenge", I thought it's time to welcome 2019 by a similar challenge. This time you have to use the digits 2, 0, 1, 9 in this particular order to create the ...
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Finni's tricky game
Finni’s game:
Person A thinks of a number (1 to 10). This number is called n.
Person B says a number (1 to 10). This number is called x.
Person A tells the absolute difference of n and x. This ...
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Three-digit multiplication puzzle, part III: Return of the Hex
Followup to: Three-digit multiplication puzzle and Three-digit multiplication puzzle, part II: ever heard of senary?
Place different three-digit hexadecimal numbers (000-FFF) on each of the seven ...
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Three-digit multiplication puzzle, part II: ever heard of senary?
Followup to: Three-digit multiplication puzzle
I'd never heard of "senary" either, until creating this series of three puzzles. It seems that "senary" is the word for base-six notation. Who knew? ...
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Three-digit multiplication puzzle
Place different three-digit numbers (000-999) on each of the seven nodes of the following diagram:
There are six lines in the diagram, on each of which are three of the nodes. On each of those lines, ...
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Fourteen numbers around a circle
Place the numbers 1 to 14 around this circle so that both the sum and (absolute) difference of any two neighboring numbers is a prime.
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The Magic Letter H
Place seven different positive integers on the empty disks of the H figure below so that the product of the three numbers in any straight black line is always the same. Now place seven other numbers ...
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My Social Security Card Number
I have forgotten my social security card number. All I remember is that it is the largest integer with the property that the block of any two of its digits that are adjacent is either a two-digit ...
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Ten-digit number that satisfy divisibilty rules for 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10&11
Question:
Arrange the digits 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0 to make a ten-digit Number that satisfies all of the divisibility rules for 2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10,&11. BONUS: make the number also divisible by 7
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What is the pattern that describes these numbers? [closed]
Supposed you are given the following numbers:
6
28
496
8128
33550336
8589869056
What's the relation between them?
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Make $1,\dots,15$ using $3, 9, 9, 9$
This was inspired by many puzzles that use three/four numbers to create other numbers. I chose these numbers in particular because of this post.
Can you find a way to make all the natural numbers ...
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Make 0 0 0 0 = 8
Can you find a way to make:
$0\ 0 \ 0 \ 0 = 8$
by adding any operations or symbols? You can use only these symbols:
$+,\ -,\ *,\ !,\ /,\ \hat\, ,\ ()$.
It is limited to this list, and ...
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Is this number unique?
Inspired by Interview Question or Pathbreaking puzzle and A121808.
Start with $1$, and count the number of times $1$ occurs, and report this in the format 'number of ones:1', i.e. the next term is $...
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Maximize the number of factorials in your solution to 6 5 4 3 = 1
Using the same rules as Make 6 5 4 3 = 1, but maximize the number of factorials. You may not take the factorial of 1 or 2.
This is harder than it looks. A great answer has six factorials, an ...
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Make 6 5 4 3 = 81
Can you find a way to make:
6 5 4 3 = 81
by concatenation and/or adding any of (and only) these mathematical operators:
+
-
×
!
÷
^
standard parentheses ()
You cannot add other numbers to the ...
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Make 6 5 4 3 = 1
Can you find a way to make:
6 5 4 3 = 1
by concatenation and/or adding any of (and only) these mathematical operators:
+
-
×
!
÷
^
standard parentheses ()
You cannot add other numbers to the ...
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Make 5 5 5 5 = 19 [closed]
Can you find a way to make:
$5\ 5 \ 5 \ 5 = 19$
by adding any operations or symbols? You can use only these symbols:
$+,\ -,\ *,\ !,\ /,\ \hat\, ,\ ()$.
It is limited to this list, and ...
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Math Puzzle - What am I?
I am X. I was roaming around some place and found another X. We got attracted. Got into some operation and generate Y.
Me and my X got together now and went to roam the places.
We found the group ...
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Do they have to be integers? [closed]
$A^2$ + $B^2$, $AB$, and $A + B$ are all integers.
Do both $A$ and $B$ have to be integers? If not, what is an example where they are not?
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A football tournament
During a tournament, seven football teams, three European, three South American, and one from Africa, scored a total of 89 goals.
The number of goals scored by the African squad was relatively prime ...
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A Tour Around a Triangle
Place the 18 even integers between 2 and 36 in the empty nodes of this triangular graph in such a way that if a path is drawn by coloring in red all the edges joining any two nodes whose numbers add ...
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A partition of 1000 into nine parts
The sum of nine whole numbers is 1000. If those numbers are placed on the vertices of this graph, two of them will be joined by an edge if and only if they have a common divisor greater than 1 (i.e. ...
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Four Marathon Runners
Four marathon runners, each identified with a positive whole number, sit around a table. Each of them notices that their own number has a common divisor with the number of the runner sitting on his ...
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Factor the number 23 into four numbers $a + b \sqrt{2} + c \sqrt{3} + d \sqrt{6}$ [closed]
We know that $23$ is a prime number nonetheless, I'm asking to find 4 numbers $a,b,c,d > 0$ such that $23$ factors.
$$ 23 = A \times B \times C \times D \text{ with } A,B,C,D = a + b \sqrt{2} + c \...
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Make numbers 1-30 using 2, 0, 1, 9
This is very similar to the 2, 0, 1, 8 problem. Just try to make all numbers 1-30 using the digits 2, 0, 1, 9.
Rules:
Use all four digits exactly once
Allowed operations: +, -, x, ÷, ! (factorial), ...
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Product of Factorials
In the annual meeting of the International Conference of Puzzle Scenarios, each of $100$ people in a room is given a different number from the set $\{1!,2!,3!,...,99!,100!\}$. One person leaves the ...
