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 > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org