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Find the units digit of 7 7 7 7^{7^{7}} .


The answer is 3.

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4 solutions

Aaaaaa Bbbbbb
Apr 13, 2014

We have: 7 2 x m o d 10 = 1 ; x 3 7^{2^{x}} \mod 10 = 1; x \geq 3 7 7 = ( 2 3 1 ) 7 = k 2 3 1 7 7 7 m o d 10 = 10 k + 1 7 m o d 10 = 3 7^{7}=(2^{3}-1)^7 = k2^{3}-1 \Rightarrow 7^{7^{7}} \mod 10 = \frac{10*k +1}{7} \mod 10 =\boxed{3}

Asher Joy
Apr 12, 2014

The units digit of 7 goes like this: 7, 9, 3, 1, 7, 9, 3, 1.... Let the exponent 7 7 = x 7^7 = x . We want to find the units digit of 7 x 7^x . Units digits of powers of 7 7 repeat in cycles of 4. So we need to find the remainder when x x is divided by 4 4 .
x = 7 7 x=7^7 . 7 7 is equivalent to 1 m o d 4 1 7 = 1 m o d 4 = 3 m o d 4. -1 mod 4 \quad -1^7 = -1 mod 4 = 3 mod 4. Therefore the units digit will be 3.

i also approached the same

Rishabh Jain - 7 years ago
Vishnudatt Gupta
May 4, 2014

let the power of 7 be x

so cyclicity of 7 is 4 & we have the remainder when x is divided by 4

and remainder comes -1 which is not possible so remainder will be 4-1=3

and uni digit be 7 7 7=343

u digit=3

Keen Shen
Apr 12, 2014

notice that the unit digit is recurring....

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