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Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Can you solve in a minute?

Problem:


Solution:

Yes I can!

First, note that we only need to find the unit digit, so we can use the binomial theorem to help us to get rid of a lot of noise

264n%10=(260+4)n%10=4n%10.

Next, notice the unit digit pattern in power of 4s.

4
16
64
256

It is just alternating 4 and 6, so the answer unit digit of the first term is 6, and the second term is 4, so the final unit digit is just 0.

By the way, 264102+264103=

2672061284943160918522454763266223159532013534099073129065764495853122847577901956596137015881471742644503555582762443491090345356529962017230305249153860349231365381334758920717003765678148536467012213716576437712205080690644467304472055027010109440

It takes no time to compute this in python:

>> 264 ** 102 + 264 ** 103


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