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TheQuirk

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Challenge n: Fun with numbers!
« on: 1 November 2005, 23:55 »
This one can be solved using a computer or a pen and paper.

n is a six-digit natural number. n's first digit is 2. If n's first digit is removed and placed at the front of the number, then the new number is three times larger than n.

What's n?
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Re: Challenge n: Fun with numbers!
« Reply #1 on: 2 November 2005, 00:20 »
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Re: Challenge n: Fun with numbers!
« Reply #2 on: 2 November 2005, 02:35 »
w00t!, made a program to do this, here's the C source code:
http://illhostit.com/files/4811330734929765/n.c
 
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piratepenguin@pcdeclan:~/stuff/programming/c/n$ ./n | grep yes
Checking: 285714... yes!
The answer is 285714 :)
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"What you share with the world is what it keeps of you."
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a poem by my computer, Macintosh Vigilante
Macintosh amends a damned around the requested typewriter. Macintosh urges a scarce design. Macintosh postulates an autobiography. Macintosh tolls the solo variant. Why does a winter audience delay macintosh? The maker tosses macintosh. Beneath female suffers a double scum. How will a rat cube the heavier cricket? Macintosh calls a method. Can macintosh nest opposite the headache? Macintosh ties the wrong fairy. When can macintosh stem the land gang? Female aborts underneath macintosh. Inside macintosh waffles female. Next to macintosh worries a well.
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