Le Monde puzzle [#909]
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Another of those “drop-a-digit” Le Monde mathematical puzzle:
Find all integers n with 3 or 4 digits an single interior zero digit, such that removing that zero digit produces a divider of x.
As in puzzle #904, I made use of the digin R function:
digin=function(n){ as.numeric(strsplit(as.character(n),"")[[1]])}
and simply checked all integers up to 10⁶:
plura=divid=NULL for (i in 101:10^6){ dive=rev(digin(i)) if ((min(dive[1],rev(dive)[1])>0)& (sum((dive[-c(1,length(dive))]==0))==1)){ dive=dive[dive>0] dive=sum(dive*10^(0:(length(dive)-1))) if (i==((i%/%dive)*dive)){ plura=c(plura,i) divid=c(divid,dive)}}}
which leads to the output
> plura 1] 105 108 405 2025 6075 10125 30375 50625 70875 > plura/divid [1] 7 6 9 9 9 9 9 9 9
leading to the conclusion there is no solution beyond 70875. (Allowing for more than a single zero within the inner digits sees many more solutions.)
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