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by lo0dot0 697 days ago
You can only get an 8 in the rightmost digit of the result by multiples of the rightmost digits, but 08 obviously gets you a 0, so fairly easy to see this is wrong.

(10a+b)(10c+d) = 100ac+10(ad+bc)+bd

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Well… I was joking. Even more generally, multiplication by b in base b gives a zero at the end.
… and, in fact, ‘b in base b’ always looks like 10 anyway!