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Permalink Submitted by Anonymous on December 22, 2015

Add the kernel 495 to its reverse, 594, and you get another famously mysterious number 1089. Do the same with 6174 and get 10890, (which is also the result of R&A 1089). R&A 549945 = 1099890, R&A 631764 = 1098900.

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