Are these squares perfect?

How many perfect squares are there from the following list of numbers?

364829362819214 364829362819214

2618361628328171 2618361628328171

17283926283618266 17283926283618266

17282626151715219 17282626151715219

172736373827271731 172736373827271731

Challenge: Do not use a calculator!


The answer is 0.

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All positive integers can be written in the form of 2 k 2k and 2 k + 1 2k + 1 , when k k is a positive integer.

Then ( 2 k ) 2 = 4 k 2 0 ( m o d 4 ) (2k)^{2} = 4k^2 \equiv 0 (mod 4)

Then ( 2 k + 1 ) 2 = 4 ( k 2 + k ) + 1 1 ( m o d 4 ) (2k + 1)^{2} = 4(k^{2} + k) + 1 \equiv 1 (mod 4)

Thus, let a a be a positive integer,

a 2 0 , 1 ( m o d 4 ) \boxed{a^{2} \equiv 0, 1 (mod 4) }

364829362819214 2 ( m o d 4 ) 364829362819214 \equiv 2 (mod 4)

2618361628328171 3 ( m o d 4 ) 2618361628328171 \equiv 3 (mod 4)

17283926283618266 2 ( m o d 4 ) 17283926283618266 \equiv 2 (mod 4)

17282626151715219 3 ( m o d 4 ) 17282626151715219 \equiv 3 (mod 4)

172736373827271731 3 ( m o d 4 ) 172736373827271731 \equiv 3 (mod 4)

Thus all number cannot be a perfect square.

great i did the same way......

Saurav Sharma - 7 years, 1 month ago
Astro Enthusiast
Jul 6, 2014

Get the digital root of the number by adding all its digits, if the number exceeds 9, add the digits again until you reach the single unit number. A perfect square has digital roots of 1, 4, 7 or 9.

Same way!!

Dev Sharma - 5 years, 7 months ago

what does it means..? Could you explain to me..please.. @Precious Prestosa

XiaoLin Chiam - 6 years, 10 months ago

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do you mean digital root? The digital root of a non-negative integer is the value obtained by an iterative process of summing digits, on each iteration using the result from the previous iteration to compute a digit sum(wiki)

Mardokay Mosazghi - 6 years, 10 months ago

yeah did the same!

Kartik Sharma - 6 years, 9 months ago
Satyen Nabar
May 1, 2014

1) Any square number which has 6 as last digit will have odd number as its penultimate digit.

2) Any square number that doesnt have 6 as its last digit has an Even number as its penultimate digit.

A longer way wd be to calculate the digital root since squares have only 1 4 7 9 as their digital roots.

Excellent .

Krishna Ar - 6 years, 9 months ago

Hats off. Thats the advantage of scrolling down solutions.

Chandrachur Banerjee - 6 years, 9 months ago

ehh,but wait how about 56,76,96 and the other. they last digit is 6,his penultimate digit is odd but they are not square number. i think that your statement is only implikasi and not bi implikasi. this statement only provided that Any square number which has 6 as last digit will have odd number as its penultimate digit but not provided that Any number which has 6 as last digit and have odd number as its penultimate digit is square number.so you cant do this problem by this methode,thanks :) also the same way to statement 2

Rifqi Mukhammad - 6 years, 2 months ago

I don't understand...could you explain..?

XiaoLin Chiam - 6 years, 10 months ago

What is digital root?

VAIBHAV borale - 6 years, 10 months ago

Yes, this! nice solution!

Kartik Sharma - 6 years, 9 months ago
Anand Raj
Sep 12, 2014

every perfect square is in form of 4p or 4p+1......

Therefore these numbers must be divisible by 4 or leave remainder 1 when divided.......

Since no one follows therefore 0 is the answer

Rutvik Paikine
Oct 29, 2014

Every perfect square is of the form 4k+1....and....4k+0.....observe that the numbers given are not according to the above form....hence,NO number is a perfect square....

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