4 digit Automorphic Numbers
We define a positive integer to be an -digit automorphic number if the last digits of are all equal, and that has exactly digits.
For example, 376 is a 3-digit automorphic number because and so on.
What is the value of a 4-digit automorphic number?
The answer is 9376.
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1 solution
We know that if a number n is a 4 digit automorphic number then n^2=10000x+n for x is a positive integer because the last 4 digits of 10000x is 0000 and adding n makes those last 4 digits n since n is going to be our automorphic number.So n(n-1)=10000x. What this means is that n=0 mod 625 and n=1 mod 16 or n=1 mod 625 and n=0 mod 16.
Case 1 The first case says that n=0 mod 625 and n=1 mod 16.So n=625k for k is a positive integer.We know that the integer n would equal to 1 mod 16 and that because n=625k, 625k mod 16 is equal to 1 mod 16. We know that 625k mod 16 is equal to k mod 16 because 624k=16(39k).So k=1 and n=625(1).But since 625 is not a 4 digit number, 625 is not the answer.k could also be 17 or 33 etc but the smallest value that might also work, 17, makes n=625(17)=10625 and this has 5 digits so 10625 is not the answer.Even though no possible value of k will work then, we still have case 2.
Case 2 The second case says that n=625a+1 and n=16f where f is a positive integer.We know that n mod 16= 0 mod 16 because n=16f and 625a +1 mod 16 is a+1 mod 16 so a+1=0 but that means a=-1 but a+1 could also equal to any multiple of 16 so we assume that a+1=16, this makes a=15, if we say that a+1=32, a=31 and 625(31) +1=19376 so we know that the numbers 32, 48, 64 and so on wont work but if a+1=16, a=15 and n=15(625)+1 which is 9376 so our answer is 9376.Note that there is the 3 digit automorphic number 376 and that 9376 has its last 3 digits 376!