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81.37 Dicing decimal digits

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

Neville Holmes
Neville Holmes*
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Department of Computing, University of Tasmania, Launceston 7250 Australia
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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 81 , Issue 491 , July 1997 , pp. 288 - 293
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Copyright © The Mathematical Association 1997

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