THE PERFECT MEMORY.
"What was the number of the car that knocked you down?" the constable asked old Wise, the mathematics professor. "Well, constable, I can't recollect the exact number," he replied, "but I distinctly remember noticing that if it were multiplied by itself the cube root of the product would'be equal to the sum of the digits reversed."
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LII, Issue 32, 21 April 1931, Page 6
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