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    "# [Lychrel Numbers](https://projecteuler.net/problem=55)\n",
    "\n",
    "This could get tricky if we were working with fixed size integers, since the reverse-and-add process for [Lychrel numbers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lychrel_number) can result in some big numbers. But Python ints have unlimited precision, so no need to worry about that."
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    "def is_palindrome(n):\n",
    "    s = str(n)\n",
    "    return s == s[::-1]\n",
    "\n",
    "\n",
    "def is_lychrel_number(n):\n",
    "    for _ in range(0, 50):\n",
    "        rev = int(str(n)[::-1])\n",
    "        n += rev\n",
    "        if is_palindrome(n):\n",
    "            return False\n",
    "        \n",
    "    return True"
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    "This is easy to brute force, since we're not checking that many numbers, and we loop at most 50 times in our test."
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    "lychrel_numbers = {n for n in range(1, 10000) if is_lychrel_number(n)}"
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    "len(lychrel_numbers)"
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    "## Relevant sequences\n",
    "* Suspected Lychrel numbers: [A023108](https://oeis.org/A023108)\n",
    "\n",
    "#### Copyright (C) 2025 filifa\n",
    "\n",
    "This work is licensed under the [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) and the [BSD Zero Clause license](https://spdx.org/licenses/0BSD.html)."
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