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A007185 a(n) = 5^(2^n) mod 10^n.
(Formerly M3940)
11
5, 25, 625, 625, 90625, 890625, 2890625, 12890625, 212890625, 8212890625, 18212890625, 918212890625, 9918212890625, 59918212890625, 259918212890625, 6259918212890625, 56259918212890625, 256259918212890625 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,1

COMMENTS

Automorphic numbers ending in digit 5: a(n)^2 == a(n) (mod 10^n), that is, a(n) is an idempotent in Z[10^n].

REFERENCES

V. deGuerre and R. A. Fairbairn, Automorphic numbers, J. Rec. Math., 1 (No. 3, 1968), 173-179.

R. A. Fairbairn, More on automorphic numbers, J. Rec. Math., 2 (No. 3, 1969), 170-174.

Jan Gullberg, Mathematics, From the Birth of Numbers, W. W. Norton & Co., NY, page 253-4.

Ya. I. Perelman, Algebra can be fun, pp. 97-98.

C. P. Schut, Idempotents. Report AM-R9101, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam, 1991.

N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

Xiaolong Ron Yu, Curious Numbers, Pi Mu Epsilon Journal, Spring 1999, pp. 819-823.

LINKS

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Link to a section of The World of Mathematics.

Index entries for sequences related to automorphic numbers

EXAMPLE

a(5) = 90625 because 90625^2 == 8212890625 ends in 90625.

CROSSREFS

A018247 gives the associated 10-adic number.

A003226 = {0, 1} union (this sequence) union A016090.

Sequence in context: A082026 A101392 A078260 * A175852 A030995 A067270

Adjacent sequences:  A007182 A007183 A007184 * A007186 A007187 A007188

KEYWORD

nonn,base

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com).

EXTENSIONS

More terms from David W. Wilson (davidwwilson(AT)comcast.net)

Edited by David W. Wilson, Sep 26, 2002

Further edited by N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com), Jul 21 2010

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