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E 36. How many solutions?

(2020 Putnam Exam, problem A1)

How many positive integers N satisfy all of the following 3 conditions:

(i) N is divisible by 2020

(ii) N has at most 2020 decimal digits

(iii) The decimal digits of N are a string of consecutive ones followed by a string of consecutive zeros.

Note: This only requires pre-college level mathematics, but like most Putnam problems it is not easy.

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