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Ways and means (Posted on 2014-06-05)

Find the smallest value
of N to make 8245613N a palindrome.

See The Solution Submitted by Ady TZIDON

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Obviously wrong

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Well, I'll bite. The obvious answer is 165428, if the operation is one of concatenation. But this is tricks, so that can't be it.

If this is a multiplication, then N = 0 works.

Yes, I like that. If N = 0, then 8245613N = 0, which is a palindrome. I'll stick with that answer.

Posted by Steve Herman on 2014-06-05 11:54:04

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