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| | Three Years Of Computing |
 | | Last night, at five minutes before midnight, the program printed the message: |
 | | The built-in endpoint had been reached; after 2,415,836 reversals and additions, 196 had grown to a number of 1,000,000 digits without ever yielding a palindrome. |
 | | From a probabilistic standpoint, as a number grows to enormous size the likelihood of producing a palindrome on the next step decreases since the odds of a digit pair summing to 10 or more approach certainty in very large numbers. |
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