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Square Root Patterns

The document describes solving for the square roots of two extremely large palindromic numbers by recognizing patterns in their digits and using the guess and check method. For the first number, the author guesses square roots with increasingly many repeating digits until finding 111,111,111. For the second, they guess a number with repeating tens based on its digit pattern and find 10101010101010101.

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Square Root Patterns

The document describes solving for the square roots of two extremely large palindromic numbers by recognizing patterns in their digits and using the guess and check method. For the first number, the author guesses square roots with increasingly many repeating digits until finding 111,111,111. For the second, they guess a number with repeating tens based on its digit pattern and find 10101010101010101.

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Title: Square Root Patterns

Problem Statement: Whats the square root of 12,345,678,987,654,321? Whats the


square root of 102,030,405,060,708,090,807,060,504,030,201? Explain how you found
your answers.

Problem Setup: I have never before attempted to solve a square root this large.
There is a definite pattern to both numbers. The first number has nine consecutive
digits that increase by one up to the ninth digit, and then it decreases inversely by
one back down to the digit one making a perfect palindrome. The second number is
made up of a series of the multiples of ten up to ninety and then it decreases by ten
down to twenty with a one tacked on to the end.

Plans to Solve/Investigate the Problem: I will attempt to use the guess, divide, and
average method; failing this, I will use a formula for calculating square roots gotten
from Dr. Math; failing this, I will use the guess and check method.

Investigation/Exploration of the Problem: It was too difficult to use the guess, divide,
and average method to solve either the first or the second square roots. After a
series of failures, I resorted to the Dr. Math method of dividing the numbers into
pairs, guessing at a square of the first digit, placing it in the radical, placing that
number under the radical subtracting, multiplying the number in the radical by
twenty, etc. (See Ask Dr. Math at http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/5261.html.)
At this point, I resorted to the guess and check method.
In problem one, I noticed the pattern and reasoned that my partial product may have
a series of ones. So I started by squaring 11, which yielded the palindrome 121. Next
I squared 111, which yielded 12,321. When I squared 1,111 it yielded 1,234,321, and I
saw the beginnings of a pattern; so I continued in this manner by progressively
adding one, to each iteration of squaring until I reached the square of 111,111,111.
The product was 12,345,678,987,654,321; a perfect square. Therefore, the square
root of 12,345,678,987,654,321 is 111,111,111. See page two.
In problem two, I reasoned that since I had used nine digits in problem one, and
since problem two was a number that consisted of multiples of ten, I would attempt
to square a number consisting of nine tens (101010101010101010). This approach
had worked in problem one. However, I immediately noticed that the digit in the ones
place of problem two (102,030,405,060,708,090,807,060,504,030,201) was the digit
one. Therefore, I arbitrarily eliminated the zero in the ones place of
101010101010101010, so that the number to be squared would be
10,101,010,101,010,101. The square of this number yielded another perfect square,
102,030,405,060,708,090,807,060,504,030,201; so the square root of
102,030,405,060,708,090,807,060,504,030,201 is 10,101,010,101,010,101. See page
two.

Extension of the Problem: This problem could be shortened. The investigative


method would be the same guess and check method used above. An example
appears below.
Link: See the link in the paragraph Investigation/Exploration of the Problem.

Problem one: 111111111 Problem two: 10101010101010101


X111111111 x10101010101010101
111111111 10101010101010101
1111111110 000000000000000000
11111111100 1010101010101010100
111111111000 00000000000000000000
1111111110000 101010101010101010000
11111111100000 0000000000000000000000
111111111000000 10101010101010101000000
1111111110000000 000000000000000000000000
11111111100000000 1010101010101010100000000
12345678987654321 00000000000000000000000000
101010101010101010000000000
0000000000000000000000000000
10101010101010101000000000000
000000000000000000000000000000
1010101010101010100000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000
101010101010101010000000000000000
102030405060708090807060504030201

Extension: What is the square root of 10,201? 101


X101
101
0000
10100
10,201

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