Prove that there is at least one nonzero digit between the 1,000,000th and the 3,000,000th decimal digits of 2.
Solution
Let us suppose that all digits between the 1,000,000th and the 3,000,000th decimal digits of 2 are zeros. Then 2⇔2⋅102⋅106−n2=10106n+ϵ,=2nϵ10106+ϵ2⋅102⋅106n∈Z,n<2⋅10106 and 0<ϵ<10−3⋅106 The left hand side is a positive integer. The right hand side is smaller than 1 nevertheless. The result thus follows.
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