HMMT November 2020 H5
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The classrooms at MIT are each identified with a positive integer (with no leading zeroes). One day, as President Reif walks down the Infinite Corridor, he notices that a digit zero on a room sign has fallen off. Let be the original number of the room, and let be the room number as shown on the sign.
The smallest interval containing all possible values of can be expressed as where are positive integers with . Compute .
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