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Old 05-26-2006, 05:55 AM   #10
Fairygdmther
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It's a trick that bookkeepers use to find a transcription error - if you've reversed two numbers in one column and it doesn't match another column that it should, the difference between them will be divisible by 9 if you've reversed two numbers - ie 45 and 54, 61 and 16.

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