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Lychrel number en · NOUN

Etymology

Coined by Wade Van Landingham as a rough anagram of Cheryl, his girlfriend's first name.

Meanings

  1. A natural number that cannot form a palindrome through the iterative process of repeatedly reversing its digits and adding the resulting numbers.
    • In base ten (decimal), no Lychrel numbers have been yet proved to exist, but many are suspected.

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Lychrel numbers Number=Plur lexicographic