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1000 digits 500 products

Source: CentroAmerican & Caribbean MO 1999 Q2

January 24, 2007
modular arithmeticnumber theory proposednumber theory

Problem Statement

Find a positive integer nn with 1000 digits, all distinct from zero, with the following property: it's possible to group the digits of nn into 500 pairs in such a way that if the two digits of each pair are multiplied and then add the 500 products, it results a number mm that is a divisor of nn.