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Bazza

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Well, the first nine lines I think are required by the way the Arabic presentation of numbers is constructed.  9 is "special" because it is 1 less than the base, 10.  I suspect that in any such system with an integer base N, an analogous contruction on M = N - 1 will always be true.

 

There isn't a reason for the arbitrary power -32 in the next line.  I think it was picked post facto to generate the value in that last line.  That's a rigged trick, not a mystery.

 

In short, I don't think there's any "number magic" there.

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