document.write( "Question 1139425: a hundred and twenty digit number is formed by writing the first x natural numbers in front of each other as 12345678910111213... find the remainder when this number is divided by 8\r
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document.write( "Answer:  6\r
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document.write( "12345678910  are the first 11 digits
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document.write( "11121314...64  are the next 108 digits (54 two-digit numbers)
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document.write( "6            is the final digit \r
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document.write( "So the number ends with  646  which has remainder 6 when divided by 8.\r
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document.write( "What happened to the first 117 digits, you may ask?  Since 8 divides into 1000 evenly, all those digits can be ignored.  \r
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