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Does there exist a polynomial that extracts the highest digit of an integer in base p?

Given an odd prime $p$, a positive integer $1 \lt n$, and an integer $x \in \mathbb{Z}/p^n\mathbb{Z}$, does there exist an an integer-coefficient polynomial that extracts the highest digit of $x$? The ...
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