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Smallest integer with digit product ten thousand

Question

Find the least positive integer whose digits have product 1000010000.

Short answer

255558255558. Since 10000=24⋅5410000=2^4\cdot5^4, we need four 55s, and the 242^4 is packed into as few digits as possible: two digits (2,82,8 or 4,44,4). Six digits is the minimum, and arranging 2,5,5,5,5,82,5,5,5,5,8 in increasing order gives 255558255558, smaller than 445555445555.

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