WHAT WAS THE NUMBER.
Motor Cop (to professor of mathematics) : So you saw the accident, sir? What was the number of the car that knocked this man down?
Professor: I’m afraid I’ve forgotten it. But I remember noticing that if it were multiplied by 50, the cube root of the product would be equal to the sum of the digits reversed.
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Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 281, 28 March 1929, Page 7
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