Challenge 137: Powerful Nines?
Can you answer these questions about the last digits of big numbers?
Is it true that the last digits of any number of the form 99n, where n is a positive odd integer, are always 99?
What about the positive odd powers of 999?
How do you know? Can you generalise?
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