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What is the smallest positive integer n n such that 201 6 n 2016^n has a string of digits 314159 in its decimal representation?


The answer is 595.

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Hjalmar Orellana Soto by Hjalmar Orellana Soto , 24, Chile

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Brock Brown
Mar 23, 2016

Python 3: 

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n = 0
while '314159' not in str(2016**n):
    n += 1
print ("Answer:", n)

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