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Today I learned about Lychrel numbers. A Lychrel number is a natural number that cannot form a palindrome through the iterative process of repeatedly reversing its digits and adding the resulting numbers. For example 57+75 = 132, 132+231 = 363, a palindrome. There is no known sequence for 196

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