Product of "complex" distances

Geometry Level 3

Let us take 2019 2019 unitary (radius 1 1 ) circumferences and draw regular polygons in them (starting from 3 3 sides polygon, to 2021 2021 sides). Let M ( n ) M(n) denote the product of the distances of the medium point of an arc (the part of the circumference between two consecutive vertices) to all the vertices. For example if n = 4 n=4 , then M ( 4 ) = P A P B P C P D M(4)=PA \cdot PB \cdot PC \cdot PD where P P is the midpoint of the arc A B AB . Let D ( n ) D(n) denote the product of distances from one of the vertices of the n n -sided polygon to the others. Again, as an example, D ( 4 ) D(4) corrispond to A B A C A D AB \cdot AC \cdot AD . Evaluate the last digit of n = 3 2021 M ( n ) n D ( n ) \sum\limits_{n=3}^{2021} M(n)^n \cdot D(n) .


The answer is 2.

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2 solutions

Alessandro Fenu
Jan 1, 2019

This problem may be solved by simple "Complex bashing". Notice that all the unitary circumference with its regular polygon in it, may rapresent "roots of unity", or namely the solutions to x n = 1 x^n=1 visualized on the Gauss' plane. D ( n ) D(n) corresponds to 1 x 1 x 2 . . . 1 x n 1 |1-x||1-x^2|...|1-x^{n-1}| , which indeed turns out to be exactly n n . M ( n ) M(n) is always 2 2 . An easy way to see this is to recognize that M ( n ) = D ( 2 n ) D ( n ) M(n)=\frac{D(2n)}{D(n)} . The sum corresponds now to n = 3 2021 2 n n \sum\limits_{n=3}^{2021} 2^n \cdot n whose 3 3 last digits turn out to be 072 072 (obtained by differentiating).

K T
Aug 25, 2019

Observe that M ( n ) = 2 M(n)=2 and D ( n ) = n D(n)=n . So we just want to evaluate n = 3 2021 2 n n \sum_{n=3}^{2021}2^n \cdot n

Working (mod 10), observe that the powers of 2 have a periodicity of 4, and n has periodicity of 10, so the last digit of subsequent terms has periodicity LCM(4,10)=20. Work out the first 20 terms: n = 3 22 2 n n 4 + 4 + 0 + 4 + 6 + 8 + 8 + 0 + 8 + 2 + 6 + 6 + 0 + 6 + 4 + 2 + 2 + 0 + 2 + 8 0 ( m o d 10 ) \sum_{n=3}^{22}2^n\cdot n \equiv 4+4+0+4+6+8+8+0+8+2+6+6+0+6+4+2+2+0+2+8 \equiv 0 \pmod {10} Notice that our sum is just lacking one term to complete 101 batches of 20, the answer is 8 2 ( m o d 10 ) -8 \equiv \boxed{2} \pmod {10} .

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