How many non negative integers are there such that
n
!
+
1
0
is a perfect square? Enter your answer as 1 plus the number of such integers.
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awesome and brilliant!!!!!
Really good.
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Hey krishna will you ppease solve a question for me:- Number of roots of the equation Z^2+zbar=0 is??? Here z is a complex number and zbar is conjugate of z please soove it yaar
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Sure...I think its fairly easy if only the number is asked- it's 2..cuz the highest degree indicates number of roots...but if you ask say the number of real/imaginary roots...it changes....
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@Krishna Ar – I think you are talking about fundamantel theoram of algebra which says a polynomial of degree n has n roots right But in this case the thing that confuses me is that since z and zbar are two different variables so its not a normal quardritic polinomial
Further if it has more then 2 roots then isn't it contradicting fundamantel theoram of algebra
Please explain
Really interesting one...
For the first few integers, we can check
1! + 10 = 11, NO
2! + 10 = 12, NO
3! + 10 = 16, YES YES YES YES
4! + 10 = 34, NO
After this, we can change n! + 10 to
2(5 + n!/2)
But after 4! every factorial will yield at least a zero at the end. Therefore, it will look something like
2(.......5), so we will never get another 2 to make it a perfect square. Hence, there are no more such integers. And, thus the answer is 1 + 1 = 2
I would appreciate Tasmeem's solution because I didn't get it!!! ;)
I think your one is nicer and simpler approach
nice problem @Krishna Ar !!!
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It's easy to check that n = 3 is the only solution . Let n ! + 1 0 = j 2 for some integer j
Note that, n ! + 1 0 is always even for n > 1 , which implies j is also even for n > 1
Again note that, if n ≥ 4 , then n ! ≡ 0 ( m o d 4 ) and 1 0 ≡ 2 ( m o d 4 ) . Which implies j 2 ≡ n ! + 1 0 ≡ 0 + 2 ≡ 2 ( m o d 4 )
But we know, j 2 ≡ 0 ( m o d 4 ) [ a s j i s e v e n ]
Here we have a contradiction as 0 ≡ 2 ( m o d 4 ) , which proves that for n ≥ 4 , the value of n ! + 1 0 can't be a perfect square.
Now we are left with n = 0 , 1 , 2 a n d 3 . By Trial and Error it's easy to check that n = 3 is the only solution.
Thus the answer is 1 + 1 = 2