Henry Ernest Dudeney/536 Puzzles & Curious Problems/102 - An Exceptional Number

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536 Puzzles & Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $102$

An Exceptional Number
A number is formed of $6$ successive digits (not necessarily in regular order)
so that the number formed by the first $2$ multiplied by the $3$rd digit will produce the number expressed by the last $3$.


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Historical Note

Martin Gardner includes this variant on $51$ - An Exceptional Number from Dudeney's Modern Puzzles as an aside in the Answers section of his $1968$ repackaging 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems.

He attributes its discovery to Victor Meally.


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