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Consider, for instance, the quantity 420109. It’s fairly huge, is not it? Not so removed from half 1,000,000. Yet it may be interpreted to be smaller than 100 with a quite simple trick, with out placing any mathematical operators between the digits, with out utilizing any mathematical operate on it, and with out erasing or hiding elements of it.

How?


Hint 1

There are a number of different 6-digit numbers this might work with, however not many.

Hint 2

Not solely can it “be made smaller”, 420109 really is smaller than 100 from a sure viewpoint. There are only a few 6-digit numbers the place this may be utilized.

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No trick concerned, as a result of

it’s virtually half 1,000,000 however definitely rather a lot smaller than hundred (thousands and thousands).

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