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Re:Any positive number can be written as a sum of three pali... by jaxtellerSoA on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @10:51AM (#18015804)
yeah....I don't see why this such an "impressive" trick.
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Re:Any positive number can be written as a sum of three pali... by ballenf on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @11:03AM (#18015895)
The impressive thing is actually the underlying proof. 40+ pages with lots of edge cases and algorithms for every scenario of any arbitrarily large number.
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Re:Any positive number can be written as a sum of three pali... by dsjoerg on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @11:59AM (#18016335)
OK tough guy, please give me three palindromic numbers that add up to 1,234,567. And don't use the trick! And don't use brute force!
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Re:Any positive number can be written as a sum of three pali... by madcaptenor on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @12:02PM (#18016371)
1234321 + 242 + 4
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Re:Any positive number can be written as a sum of three pali... by jaxtellerSoA on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @02:51PM (#18018058)
1,234,567 + 0 + 0 = 1,234,567
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Re:Any positive number can be written as a sum of three pali... by JadeNB on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @03:47PM (#18018522)
> > OK tough guy, please give me three palindromic numbers that add up to 1,234,567. And don't use the trick! And don't use brute force!

> 1,234,567 + 0 + 0 = 1,234,567

The first of these is not a palindrome.

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