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Part of 1984 Balkan MO

Problems(1)

decimal representations

Source: bmo 1984

Show that for any positive integer

m

, there exists a positive integer

n

so that in the decimal representations of the numbers

5^{m}

5^{n}

, the representation of

5^{n}

ends in the representation of

5^{m}

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