Problem 284

[mrtollefson]

I want to make sure I'm properly understanding the problem. Looking at the example set, we are looking for steady squares between 1 and ddddddddd in Base 14 (nine d's or 20,661,046,783 decimal), and between 1 and 10,000 d's for the problem set.

If that assumption is correct, does the answer for 1<=n<=6 equal 14c or 264 decimal?

I see the easy part of the pattern. Still struggling with the grander vision.

Thanks,
...mrt

[hk]

14c is correct.

[BostonBear]

I am puzzled here, quoting from the problem description " c372 = aa0c37, and the sum of its digits is c+3+7=18"

from my calcuations, the sum of the digits should be c->12 + 3->3 + 7->7 = 22, not 18. I don't see what I'm doing wrong, perhaps this problems text should be fixed, either that or perhaps you can tell me where I'm thinking wrongly.

[TripleM]

I am puzzled here, quoting from the problem description " c372 = aa0c37, and the sum of its digits is c+3+7=18"

from my calcuations, the sum of the digits should be c->12 + 3->3 + 7->7 = 22, not 18. I don't see what I'm doing wrong, perhaps this problems text should be fixed, either that or perhaps you can tell me where I'm thinking wrongly.

Perhaps you shouldn't cut the last 5 words from the sentence you quoted

[BostonBear]

I am puzzled here, quoting from the problem description " c372 = aa0c37, and the sum of its digits is c+3+7=18"

from my calcuations, the sum of the digits should be c->12 + 3->3 + 7->7 = 22, not 18. I don't see what I'm doing wrong, perhaps this problems text should be fixed, either that or perhaps you can tell me where I'm thinking wrongly.

Perhaps you shouldn't cut the last 5 words from the sentence you quoted

Yeah, duh... Thanks I did do the conversion before I added the numbers in the sequence, but took the sums in base 10 and then converted the number to base 14, thereby missing the obvious.

[deejinator]

Anybody else having trouble with this, make sure your program doesn't store "0" digits as "14", especially if it only does it in a case that doesn't have any zeros up to the 9 digits of the example.

[tchiari]

Following up on mrtollefson's first post to this forum, I'm trying to first solve this for 1<=n<=6 and I'm not coming up with a digit sum of 14c. For this range, I am finding 9 results, but the sum of my digits is less than half of what is expected. I'm wondering if I could PM my 9 results to someone and see if they could clue me in to the first missing result - that should hopefully get me going in the right direction! Thanks!

[sjhillier]

I am finding 9 results

I won't tell you the values, but I will confirm that you are correct that you are missing some solutions. If your original solution isn't working, try it a different way (another language or method) and you might find them, the solution space is not so large for this range.