Journal article
Mulatu Numbers That Are Concatenations of Two Lucas Numbers
Abstract
In this paper, we find that all Mulatu numbers, which are concatenations of two Lucas numbers are 11,17,73,118. Let 〖insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(M_k);〗_insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(k≥0); and 〖insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(L_k);〗_insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(k≥0); be the Mulatu and Lucas sequences. That is, we solve the Diophantine equation M_k=L_m L_n=10^d L_m+L_n in non-negative integers insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(k,m,n,d);, where d denotes the number of digits of L_n. Solutions of this equation are denoted by insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(k,m,n,d);=insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(4,1,1,1); insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(5,1,4,1); insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(8,4,2,1); insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(9,1,6,2);. In other words, we have the solutions M_4=L_1 L_1=11, M_5=L_1 L_4=17, M_8=L_4 L_2=73, M_9=L_1 L_6=118. The proof based on Baker’s theory and we used linear forms in logarithms and reduction method to solve of this Diophantine equation.
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