Saturday, 23 August 2014

number theory - 7n contains a block of consecutive zeroes


Prove that there is a positive integer n such that the decimal representation of 7n contains a block of at least m consecutive zeros, where m is any given positive integer.




I will prove it more generally for any prime p. It is sufficient to find an n such that pn begins with the number 1000 which has exactly m zeroes. Thus, we are looking for n and k with k<m such that 10m10kpn<10k(10m+1). This is equivalent to mnlog10pk<log10(10m+1).




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