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Amateur Quest For Lychrel Numbers
Habberhead writes "Some people are aware of the quest for a palindromic solution for the number 196. Basically any number that doesn't form a palindrome by reversing and adding its digits is known as a Lychrel Number. (Sequence Number A023108 of Sloan's On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences) The number 196 happens to be the first of them. In over a year's worth of time, and more than 2 quadrillion calculations, this guy at www.p196.org has reversed and added the number over 100 MILLION times. His current answer is over 41 million digits long! Apparently he and a few others are also working on a distributed computing program for finding larger and larger Lychrel Numbers. It looks like they have in mind a Seti@Home style program with visible results."
I don't buy a computer based on adds, I go to hardware sites and look at benchmarks and read reviews. People who are too lazy to do this deserve to get ripped off. I don't expect companies to be honest about the quality of their product in any industry and no one else should. I will say this though, if this law suit is won by the customers, I'll be suing Cheer for misleading me into buying their product when I later find out that Tide is clearly better.
I'm almost sure the answer to all of this has to do with Nature's Harmonious Time Cube.
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I troll on usenet, breaks up the monotony. Also, it lets me see how the old-timer trolls used to do it back in the day...
Damn, kinda makes me wish it were 1986 again.
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Gotta love that...