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When we've reached 1,000 in this thread and add all the odd numbers on the hand and all the even numbers on the other hand, what do you think will the difference be?
 
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It's easy to calculate. For example, you can group the numbers into pairs {1,2}, {3,4}, {5,6} and so forth. Each pair has one odd and one even number and the difference is always one—one more for the even side that is. Obviously we'll get 500 pairs, so the difference will be 500.
 
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Fun fact: there are 108 palindromes among the natural numbers from 1 to 1'000. (I looked this one up.)
 
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