Amateur Quest For Lychrel Numbers

Posted by timothy on Sunday August 18, 2002 @06:17AM from the martin-gardner-would-be-proud dept.

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."

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fp by Anonymous Coward · 2002-08-18 06:19 · Score: -1, Troll

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Sean Reed is gay!
Re:All the apathy here... by protonman · 2002-08-18 11:51 · Score: 1, Troll

> Am I supposed to be rainman or something?

Yeah, definitely, yeah.

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Re:This is old news by September+11,+2001 · 2002-08-20 06:41 · Score: -1, Troll

How can you say something like that after September 11, 2001?

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