Thursday, 16 May 2013

arithmetic - Is there a number that has an odd number of tagging zeros, but has a whole square root?



I was doing some math, and I came across the problem 1000

And I was thinking about other square roots of numbers with various amounts of zeros. And it occurred to me that it seemed like numbers with odd numbers of tagging zeros had a decimal square root.



So I was curious: Is there a number with an odd number of tagging zeros, but has a whole number for its square root?



For example:
102000 has three tagging zeros, but its square root is 319.374388453



Note: I am new to square roots, so please try to explain some of the terms to me.



Thanks!



Answer



The number n>0 has the form n=2k5lr, where k,l are non-negative integers and r is a positive integer not divisible by 2 and 5. Let m=min(k,l). Then n has exactly m tagging zeros because each tagging zero corresponds to a factor 10=25. Let n have an integer square root s. Write s=2k5lr as above. Then n=s2=22k52l(r)2. Since r is not divisible by 2 and 5, also (r)2 is not divisible by 2 and 5. We conclude k=2k and l=2l, hence m=min(2k,2l)=2min(k,l) is even.


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