Wednesday, 17 April 2013

elementary number theory - Divisibility test for 4




Claim: A number is divisible by 4 if and only if the number formed by the last two digits is divisible by 4.




Here's where I've gotten so far.




Let x be an (n+1)-digit number. So x=anan1a2a1a0. If a1=0 and a0=0, then x is a multiple of 100 and therefore clearly divisible by 4. So we must deal with the case when (a10a00).



Then if 10a_1 + a_0 \equiv 0 \mod 4 is true, then x is divisible by 4.



Do I need to do anything else or is this done? I feel like it's not quite complete, but I'm not sure how to proceed.


Answer



Pick h, j \in \{0,1,\dots 9\} then 100k + 10h + j \equiv 10h+j \mod 4 because 4 \mid 100



So we have 100k + 10h + j \equiv 0 \mod 4 \ \Leftrightarrow \ 10h + j \equiv 0 \mod 4


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