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Hardcore Maths Question

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L leppie

Judah Himango wrote:

I kind of cheated.

He did say "find a number" :) So there are more than one of these. I wonder if its some kind of series...

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J Judah Gabriel Himango
Provided I've understood the question correctly, I think I've solved it. I kind of cheated though; I wrote a C# program that solves this:
```
        int start = 1;
        int divisor = 10;
        while (divisor >= 2)
        {
            if (start % divisor == divisor - 1)
            {
                divisor--;
            }
            else
            {
                start++;
                divisor = 10;
            }
        }
```
Soon as that loop exits, you've got your number, which happens to be 2519.
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L leppie

2701439 last 4 digits by deduction, rest trial and error guess with 3/9 rule. :)

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L leppie

Here's a wild guess: 123456789 ? [edit] ok I got the 9 bit :p [edit] -- modified at 18:37 Wednesday 26th July, 2006
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A Andrew Bleakley

It's not a mexican is it ?
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R Raj Lal

Ok lets me be the first to ask a maths question Find a number which 1. divided by 10 gives a remainder 9 2. divided by 9 gives remainder 8 --- --- so on till divided by 2 gives a remainder 1 Any one ?

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