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Kaprekar's constant - named after an Indian mathematician of the same name , Any 4 digit number using Kaprekar's operation will give you 6174. Any three digit number will give you the sum 495. This is not applicable to two, five and seven digit numbers. As far as I can see, the number... more

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Rated by daokta on Nov 07, 5:49pm

Kaprekar's constant - named after an Indian mathematician of the same name , Any 4 digit number using Kaprekar's operation will give you 6174. Any three digit number will give you the sum 495. This is not applicable to two, five and seven digit numbers. As far as I can see, the number has no significance (unlike Pi) but this is the beauty of numbers - in the symmetry and the labor of love in working out such oddities before the modern day computing resources were available..
Rated by bariloche on Sep 22, 11:29pm

I wonder what it signifies? The meaning of Life, The Universe and Everything?
Rated by TheAnswers42Huh on Sep 22, 10:23pm

What a completely useless bit of trivia, haha.
Rated by GabiTr on Sep 07, 2:22pm

wow isn't science just amazing and wonderful!!!
Reviewed by sosh on Aug 27, 11:52am

hmm, what does it mean?

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