I have sixteen integers arranged in a certain pattern.
The first integer is the sum all the primes numbers which has the property that when divided by six, it doesn't leave a remainder of one or five.
The second integer is five times larger than the answer of this question.
The third integer is larger than the first integer by the fourth integer.
The fourth integer is the only Fibonacci number which is the only known perfect square less than hundred.
The fifth integer is the sum of all known odd perfect numbers less than eight billion then subtracted by twenty.
The sixth integer can be found by drawing a circle and taking the ratio of its circumference to its diameter, then round it down to the lowest integer.
The seventh integer is the product of the first seven non-triangular positive integers then plus the eleventh integer.
The eighth integer has a property that it is impossible for its absolute value to be raised to the power of itself.
The ninth integer is the largest integer smaller than the third integer.
The tenth integer is the Euler totient function of the Euler totient function of twelve raised to the power of twelve.
The eleventh integer is the number of divisors of the sum of the second, fourth, and fifth integer.
The twelveth integer is product of number of prime numbers less than the product of the seventh integer and Ramanujan's number.
The thirteenth integer is one less than the second integer, then multiplied by first integer.
The fourteenth integer is one more than the largest of the first five integers mentioned above.
The fifteenth integer is the smallest of the first integer, seventh integer, thirteenth integer and fourteenth integer, then multiplied by the sum of digits of the sixteenth integer.
The sixteenth integer is the sixteenth smallest positive integer less than nine trillion that is a palindrome.
What is the last three digits of the product of these sixteen integers?
Details and assumptions
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- A Fibonacci sequence is defined to a sequence of integers with first two terms equal to one and the subsequent terms equal to the sum of the previous two terms.
- The Euler totient function of an integer is defined to be the number of positive integers less than that integer that does not share any common divisor with it.
- You may use a program to find all the primes numbers for the twelveth number by Sieve of Eratosthenes. Alternatively,
List of Primes
might come in handy.
- Ramanujan's number is the smallest positive integer that is representable in two ways as a sum of two cubes.
- In mathematics, a number is said to be a palindrome if it remains the same when the digits are reversed.
- A billion is one followed by nine zeros; a trillion is one followed by twelve zeros.
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Erratum: "Luckily as φ counts the number of something, its value has to be a positive integer" -> "its value has to be a nonnegative integer"
When I saw that this problem had this huge paragraph, I looked down at the bottom sentence and saw that it was looking for the product of the sixteen integers, so I (mentally) exclaimed "This ... better be 0 or it's the most trollish question I've ever seen!" So I put 0 .
The 0 comes from the 8 th integer. ∣ 0 ∣ 0 is undefined because 0 0 is undefined.
I dare someone to find all of these integers and then find their product (without the 0 ).
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Complete list: First integer Second integer Third integer Fourth integer Fifth integer Sixth integer Seventh integer Eighth integer Ninth integer Tenth integer Eleventh integer Twelfth integer Thirteenth integer Fourteenth integer Fifteenth integer Sixteenth integer 5 0 6 1 − 2 0 3 2 2 1 7 6 0 0 5 9 9 0 6 7 7 8 2 7 5 8 4 0 (you never said positive divisors) 5 7 0 5 7 0 − 5 7 Can’t be determined because the sixteenth integer cannot be determined either Cannot be determined because you never specified the base
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Fourth integer can be 0 or 1 .
Eleventh integer counts the number of divisors, not the sum of them.
If unspecified, palindromes take base 10, so sixteenth integer is defined.
I believe the twelfth integer is wrong. Depends on whether "Ramanujan's number" is included in the first product or the second product (I take the second product). Also note "number of prime numbers..." before the second product.
I think there are a few other problems (mostly from the connection of those complaints above with the other numbers depending on them).
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@Ivan Koswara – Doesn't the Fibonacci sequence start with 1 ?
I agree with your other complaints, though.
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@Sreejato Bhattacharya – I usually consider F 0 = 0 , F 1 = 1 as the base case, not to mention that you can extend backwards. But yeah, depending on whether you take Fibonacci numbers from index 0 or 1.
The only important information here is the eighth integer, we need an integer x such that ∣ x ∣ x is impossible to compute, so x = 0 only. Thus the eighth integer must be 0 and hence the answer is 0
First, I identified what would I write for the answer, oh it's the product of the 16 numbers!
After that, I began to start making progress from the first integer.. A bit tedious of course..
And I reached the eighth integer...
No, it's still possible that you made some contradiction inside, thus making the product undefined. My solution addresses those bits. :P
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Hahah! I didn't noticed this comment. You're right. I should post a better problem next time.
I didn't even read the question, just put in 0 guessing from that large mess!!! :D
This is probably the best question ever. The fifth integer is 0 as there are no known perfect numbers at the moment. Therefore the product of all the integers is 0.
Wrong. The fifth integer is the sum of all known odd perfect numbers less than eight billion then subtracted by TWENTY . So the fifth integer equals to − 2 0
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There are no perfect numbers, so how is their sum 0?
You are correct about one of the integers being 0, but as Pi Han pointed out above, it is the eighth and not the fifth integer that is 0.
oh whoops. I didn't see the 'then' bit
Clearly a typo in the solution: no known odd perfect number, because we know some even perfect numbers ( 6 being the smallest).
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The eighth integer, denoted by x , satisfies that ∣ x ∣ x is undefined. The exponentiation to any nonzero integer is defined, so x = 0 (otherwise the exponentiation is defined, contradicting the eighth integer condition). Hence the product of all integers should be 0 . It just remains to check that none of the other integers produce a contradiction. (If there's a contradiction, the product is thus undefined.)
We interpret " a is five times larger than b " as a = 5 b , since otherwise the second integer is undefined (it is five times larger than 0 , which should be 0 again, but if we take "larger" to be strictly larger, then 0 > 0 , contradiction). Similar interpretation applies to the third integer.
The fourth integer is ambiguous ( 0 or 1 ), but the product remains the same, so this is of no concern. We're looking for contradictions, not ambiguity.
The tenth integer is safe: it's defined as the number of positive integers less than the argument, so whenever k ≤ 0 , we have φ ( k ) = 0 . The problem is only when the argument is not an integer; in this case, "divisors of that number" is undefined. Luckily as φ counts the number of something, its value has to be a positive integer, and also 1 2 1 2 is an integer, so φ ( φ ( 1 2 1 2 ) ) is defined.
The eleventh integer might pose a problem if the sum is 0 (it has infinitely many divisors). So we check the second, fourth, and fifth integer. The second integer is 0 if we take that the answer to this problem is not undefined. The fourth integer can be either 0 or 1 . The fifth integer is − 2 0 . The sum is thus − 2 0 or − 1 9 , both safe (only finitely many divisors, so the number of divisors can be determined, although it's unclear whether to take the number of positive divisors or all divisors).
The twelfth integer's description is quite unnatural: product of (number of prime numbers less than the product of the seventh integer and Ramanujan's number) is simply the parenthesized value (because the product of a single integer is itself). But this number is still defined.
The sixteenth integer might pose a problem if there are less than 1 6 palindromes that are less than 9 ⋅ 1 0 1 2 . Luckily, there are more than 1 6 : we simply observe that 1 , 2 , 3 , … , 9 , 1 1 , 2 2 , 3 3 , … , 9 9 are palindromes, and there are 1 8 of them, so the 16th smallest palindrome will be defined.
All the remaining integers are trivially defined, although perhaps not uniquely. So the integers are defined, and hence the product, and also the last three digits of the product, is 0 .
(Observe that "undefined" is also a valid answer to the problem, since the second integer will hence also be undefined, and the product of somethings with undefined is also undefined.)