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Re:Mysterious number 6174 by euroclydon on Friday February 13, 2009 @03:47PM (#480389)
I don't really see the connection. Your example is the derivative of a function, and what I am saying is that rearranging 1234 to 3421 doesn't mean anything to me.

Now you have some new number who's only relationship to the old number is that it's one of (432)-1 possible permutations of it. Other than that, what's the significance?

Re:Mysterious number 6174 by imgabe on Friday February 13, 2009 @03:56PM (#480397)
The numbers in the article aren't rearranged arbitrarily, they're sorted to ascending and descending order.