Pushpraj Gupta

Monday, December 24, 2018

Concept of unit digit

Number System
 Concept of unit digit
To understand concept of unit digit we know the concept of cyclicity this concept is about the unit digit of number and how they appear in certain manner.
Let us take an example to clear it.
The cyclicity chart of 3 is

31=3
32=9
33=27
34=81
35=243
We see the last digit changes up to 4th power and  5th power has the same unit digit.
Hence the cyclicity of 3 is 4.
                                          The cyclicity table for  number is given as below
Number
Cyclicity
1
1
2
4
3
4
4
2
5
1
6
1
7
2
8
4
9
2
10
1


Again the concept of unit digit figuring out the unit digit of all the single digit numbers from 0-9 when raised certain power.
These number  can be classified into three categories 
(1) Digits 0,1,5,6 :-
   they all have the same unit digit when raised to any power
   i.e. 
   0n=0
   1n=1
   5n=5
   6n=6
(2) Digits 4,9 :-
    Power of digit (n) can be written as n=2k+r where r is either 0 or 1(n is divided by 2)
    For example the unit digit of 4235
    4235=42*117+1=(42)1174=16117
    hence unit digit is 4 (since last digit of 16117 is 6)  and 6*4=24
    Ans is 4
(3) Digits 2,3,7,8 :-
     Power of digit (n) can be written as n=4k+r where r  may be  0, 1,2,3 (n is divided by 4)
     For example the unit digit of 4247
     2247=24*61+3=(24)6123=166123 unit digit is 8 (since last digit of 1661 is 6)  and 6*8=48
(1) Example. what is the unit digit in 7105
 Explanation  7105=74*25+1=(74)2571=(unit digit is 1)2571 
       unit digit is 7 (since last digit of 125 is 1)  and  1*7=7
       Ans is 7
(2) Example.what is the unit digit in 795-358
 Explanation  As
                 795=74*23+3=74*2373=(74)2373=(unit digit is1)23*Unit digit is3=unit digit 3
            358=34*14+2=34*1432=(34)1432=(unit digit is1)14*Unit digit is 9=unit digit 9
            Unit digit of 795-358=unit digit 3-unit digit 9 = 13-9 = 4
       Ans is 4
(3) Example.what is the unit digit in   4102 +  4103
 Explanation    Now 
                              4102 +  4103
                            =42*51 +4 2*51 +1
                            =(42) 51  +(42) 51 4
                            =(16) 51 +(16) 51 4
                            =  unit digit 6 + unit digit 6*4
                            = unit digit 6 + unit digit 4
                           =Unit digit 0
                 Ans is 0.

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