Carryless arithmetic 10

DOI10.4169/COLLEGE.MATH.J.43.1.043MaRDI QIDQ2901258zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors David Applegate, M. Lebrun, N. J. A. Sloane

Publication date 18 July 2012

Published in The College Mathematics Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.4633

zbMATH Keywords

congruencesirreducible elementssequences\(\mod 10\)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Congruences; primitive roots; residue systems (11A07) Sequences (mod (m)) (11B50) Number theory (educational aspects) (97F60)

Abstract: We investigate what arithmetic would look like if carry digits into other digit position were ignored, so that 9 + 4 = 3, 5 + 5 = 0, 9 X 4 = 6, 5 X 4 = 0, and so on. For example, the primes are now 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 41, 43, 45, 47, ... .

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