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@Mahdi Raza , I actually thought of this very problem, but I thought it won't work, since the exponent becomes irrational. But since you posted it, now I wish to know, can irrational exponent also give rational number? I wish to clear my doubt.
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Interesting, but since 159625... > 2, this all we care about. It does not matter whether it is irrational or not, we just require the last digit. But again... it is interesting, I might think on that
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Thanks for replying! Do tell me if you get something interesting! Actually, why I am thinking it won't work is that the Base is rational, and then to get a rational number, we need rational(maybe that too integer in some cases) numbers. I mean that I never saw any other equation with irrational exponent to give rational answer than this: e i π = − 1
The exponent isn't irrational. It's just arbitrarily large.
Consider 3 1 4 n m o d 1 0 , where n ≥ 2
Solution 1: By binomial expansion
3 1 4 n ≡ ( 3 2 ) 2 n − 1 × 7 n (mod 10) ≡ 9 2 n − 1 × 7 n (mod 10) ≡ ( 1 0 − 1 ) 2 n − 1 × 7 n (mod 10) ≡ ( − 1 ) 2 n − 1 × 7 n (mod 10) ≡ 1 (mod 10) The exponent 2 n − 1 × 7 n is even
Solution 2: By Euler's theorem . Since g cd ( 3 , 1 0 ) = 1 , we can apply Euler's theorem as follows. Note that Euler's totient function ϕ ( 1 0 ) = 1 0 × 2 1 × 5 4 = 4 .
3 1 4 n ≡ 3 1 4 n m o d ϕ ( 1 0 ) (mod 10) ≡ 3 1 4 n m o d 4 (mod 10) ≡ 3 0 (mod 10) ≡ 1 (mod 10)
ϕ ( 1 0 ) = 1 0 × 2 1 × 5 4 − 4 = 2 × 5 1 0 × 4 − 4 = 4 − 4 = 0 ?
Last digit of 3^4 = 1.
1^any positive integer is always 1
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3 4 k ≡ 1 ( m o d 1 0 )