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Squares with three digits

Number Theory 2022-01-11 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

We consider integers whose squares have just three decimal digits. Examples are e.g. given by 21084364919070814889395815382=44455044404054405050044500455550545000555505545504454442108436491907081488939581538^2 = 4445504440405440505004450045555054500055550554550445444 and 101000000000104010000000001012=10201000000021010020000011022100100000210100200000001020110100000000010401000000000101^2 = 102010000000210100200000110221001000002101002000000010201. The aim of this paper is to summarize the current knowledge on squares with three digits, scattered around webpages and newsgroup postings, and to add a few new insights. While we will mostly focus on the base B=10B=10, several results are presented for general values of BB. The used mathematical tools are completely elementary. However, we give complete proofs of all statements or explicitly state them as conjectures.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2112.00444,
  title  = {Squares with three digits},
  author = {Michael Geißer and Theresa Körner and Sascha Kurz and Anne Zahn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.00444},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

42 pages, 6 tables; typos corrected

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