Re: Zero digits in powers

Jean-Claude Arbaut wrote:
> Le 17/06/2005 03:35, dans
> 1118972154.204248.69090@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> « vkarlamov@xxxxxxxxx » <vkarlamov@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>
> > I vaguely recall a story that in the 1960s some Russian programmers
> > were using middle digits from products of two big numbers as a "random
> > number generator".
>
> Maybe you'll want to have a look at this thread "Manansala Random Number
> generator". I believe there was a discussion on that topic, at one point.
>

Heck, I am just trying to give productive suggestions as to how to
explain the phenomenon in this thread: zeros in 2^n.

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