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Find the largest prime number that divides the quantity \(0! + (1!) \times 1 + (2!) \times 2 + (3!) \times 3 + \cdots + (50!) \times 50\) .

 Nov 23, 2018
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0!   + 1*1! + 2*2!   + 3*3!   +  4*4!  + 5*5!  .......+ 50*50!

 

One of our members, Heureka, can probably prove this in a more elegant manner....but....here's my best attempt

 

Note the first few terms

 

1  + 1^2 *0! + 2^2 * 1!   =   6     = 3!     

 

1 + 1^2*0! + 2^2 * 1!  + 3^2*2!   =  24   =  4!

 

1 + 1^2*0! + 2^2 * 1!  + 3^2*2!  + 4^2* 3!     = 120    =  5!       and

 

1 + 1^2 *0! + 2^2 * 1!  + 3^2^2!  + 4^2* 3! + 5^2*4! = 6!

 

So....it would appear that we can write the sum as  

 

1   + 1*1! + 2*2!   + 3*3!   +  4*4!  + 5*5!  .......+ (n)^2 * (n - 1)!!   = (n + 1)!

 

So

 

0!   + 1*1! + 2*2!   + 3*3!   +  4*4!  + 5*5!  + .......+ 50*50!    =

 

1 + 1^2 *0! + 2^2 * 1!   + 3^2^2!  + 4^2* 3! + 5^2*4 +  ....+ 50^2 * 49! = ( 51) ! 

 

And largest prime that would divide this   is    47

 

 

cool cool cool

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