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March 2000
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Let's borrow notation from LaTeX and let "^" denote exponentiation, so that x^2 means "x squared".
Consider the numbers 1233 = 12^2 + 33^2, and 990100 = 990^2 + 100^2.
Can you find an eight-digit number N with the same property, namely that if you break N into two four-digit numbers B and C, and add their squares, you recover N?
(N really has to have eight digits; its leading digit is not zero. B is the number formed by the first our digits of N, and C is the number formed by the last four digits of N.)
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Challenge:
03/01/2000 @ 9:00 AM EST
Solution:
03/31/2000 9:00 AM EST
List Updated:
04/04/2000 12:00 PM EST
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