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Digit Increments 2 (Posted on 2024-04-15) Difficulty: 3 of 5
For which digits d, is it possible to add d to every digit of a square and get another square?
For example, adding 3 to each digit of 16 gives 49.However, adding zero to each digit in this manner is NOT permissible.

For which digits d are there infinitely many such squares?

*** Digit sums greater than 9 are not allowed. For example, you could not add 8 to the digits of 81 to get 169.

See The Solution Submitted by K Sengupta    
Rating: 5.0000 (2 votes)

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Solution computer solution | Comment 1 of 3
for i=1:9999999
  sq=i^2;
  sqs=num2str(sq);
  for j=1:9
    a=repmat(j,1,length(sqs))+sqs;
    if max(a-48)>9
      break
    end
    sq2=str2double(char(a));
    if sqrt(sq2)==round(sqrt(sq2))
      fprintf('%15d %2d %15d ',[sq j sq2])
    end
  end
end


finds, for its range, only

 first square   incr  second square  
              1  3               4
              1  8               9
              4  5               9
             16  3              49
             25  1              36
            121  5             676
           1156  3            4489
           2025  1            3136
          13225  1           24336
         111556  3          444889
        4862025  1         5973136
       11115556  3        44448889
     1111155556  3      4444488889
    60415182025  1     71526293136
   102442244356  3    435775577689
   111111555556  3    444444888889
   207612366025  1    318723477136
 11111115555556  3  44444448888889
 
It looks like repeated digt 3 has a pattern that will always work, with squares of numbers like 333334^2 being transformed into 6666667^2, 

Edited on April 15, 2024, 8:58 am
  Posted by Charlie on 2024-04-15 08:56:59

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