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Triangular Numbers and the Devil

Recently, inquiring readers six-year old (!) Julien and his Mom,  asked about Triangular Numbers:

Hello, My son is currently working his way through The Number Devil (by Hans Magnus Enzenberger) and is enjoying it thoroughly. He was particularly happy about the triangular numbers in Chapter 5 because I had just coincidentally given him a worksheet [...]

Can you Name this Mathematical Phenomenon?

I was just fooling around with some numbers, and realized that 13^2 (which gives you 169) is the reverse of 31^2 (which gives you 961 – which is the reverse of 169).

Is there any name for a number, the reverse of which, when squared, will also yield the reverse of the original number’s square?

Here’s another [...]