Robert -

  There's a reasonably good discussion of this here:

     http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/58518.html

  Thanks . . .

tom

On Oct 8, 2012, at 9:20 AM, Robert J. Cordingley <rob...@cirrillian.com> wrote:

> I probably should know this...
> 
> So when you rearrange the digits of a number (>9) and take the difference, it 
> is divisible by nine.  A result that sometimes points to accounting errors.  
> If the numbers are not base 10 the result is divisible by (base-1).
> 
> What is the associated theorem for this?
> 
> Thanks
> Robert
> 
> 
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