Supercongruences are congruences between special values of truncated hypergeometric series that hold modulo high powers of primes. Originally motivated by Ramanujan’s remarkable formulae for 1/π, ...
IN the review of the above book (NATURE, November 7), mention is made of the curious fact that 8 × 123456789 + 9 = 987654321. It may be of interest to point out that this is not an isolated numerical ...