Repeatedly Appending Any Digit to Generate Composite Numbers

نویسندگان

  • Jon Grantham
  • Witold Jarnicki
  • John Rickert
  • Stan Wagon
چکیده

We investigate the problem of finding integers k such that appending any number of copies of the base-ten digit d to k yields a composite number. In particular, we prove that there exist infinitely many integers coprime to all digits such that repeatedly appending any digit yields a composite number.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The American Mathematical Monthly

دوره 121  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2014