What is the smallest number with exactly 14 divisors?
Many numbers can be expressed as the sum of two or more consecutive integers. For example, 15=7+8 and 10=1+2+3+4. Can you say which numbers can be expressed in this way?
Helen made the conjecture that "every multiple of six has more factors than the two numbers either side of it". Is this conjecture true?
Suzanne and Nisha, The Mount School Yorkfound that the 1000 th digit is the 3 of 370 and their method for the 6000 th occurrence of the digit 6 was almost correct. Joeof Madras College, St Andrews found the millionth digit is the initial 1 in 185185. Well done.
Suzanne and Nisha's solution for the thousandth digit: argued as follows:
From 1 to 99 there are 189 digits. From 100 to 200 there are 303 digits. From 200 to 300 there are 300 digits. From 1 to 300 there are 792 digits. So the 1000 th digit lies somewhere within the numbers 300 and 400 and is the 208th digit counting from the 3 in 301. 208/3 = 69.333 So the 1000 th digit is the 3 in 370.
Joe's solution for the millionth digit: I worked out how many digits there are in each group of 1 digit, 2 digit, 3 digit, 4 digit and 5 digit numbers.
I then took 488 889 from 1 million to leave 511 111. Therefore I needed as many 6 digit numbers as would give a total of 511 111 digits.
511 111/6 = 85 185.1666 488 889 + 6(85 185) = 488 889 + 511 110 = 999 999
Starting from 100 000 the 85185 th number is 185184 so the millionth digit is the first digit of 185185.
The six thousandth six
From 1 to 16165 you write the digit '6' altogether 5998 times.
So you write '6' for the 6000th time as the second '6' in the number 16166.