Friday, January 20, 2012

The ISBN of the fifth edition of Elementary Numbers Theory andIts Applications is 0-32-123Q072, where Q is a d?

The ISBN of the fifth edition of Elementary Numbers Theory and Its Applications is 0-32-123Q072, where Q is a digit. Find the value of Q.|||This is the old-style ISBN, when they used to be ten digits. Q is determined by solving the following equation.


0*10


+3*9


+2*8


+...


+Q*4


+...


+2*1=0 mod 11.





The new 13-digit ones have a slightly different checksum system.|||The seventh digit could be anything between 0 and 9. There's no way of telling from the information you've given.

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