Archive for August 1st, 2005

Ponder This

Monday, August 1st, 2005

It’s the beginning of the month and the solution to last month’s Ponder This challenge is up, as well as the puzzle for August:

For K as large as possible, produce a K-digit integer M such that for each N=1,2,…,K, the integer given by the first N digits of M is divisible by N.
An example is K=4, M=7084, because 7 is divisible by 1; 70 is divisible by 2; 708 is divisible by 3; and 7084 is divisible by 4.

I guess that the largest K is around 28.