English Explanatory Dictionary

Lychrel number

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A natural number that cannot form a palindrome through the iterative process of repeatedly reversing its digits and adding the resulting numbers.

Word forms

Lychrel number Lychrel numbers

Etymology

Coined by Wade Van Landingham as a rough anagram of Cheryl, his girlfriend's first name.

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