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by mark-r 1569 days ago
That passage was the inspiration for someone's blog to present a challenge and see how many people could pass the test.

https://reprog.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/are-you-one-of-the-1...

Covered by HN at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1277459

My own solution was in Python, so it didn't fall prey to the very common integer overflow error. Python has the amazing and handy property that integers don't overflow.