Would you like to see something

AMAZING?

I can write any positive number as a sum of three palindromes.

That means three numbers that read the same

SDRAWKCAB

as

FORWARDS

Yes, I can do this for

any

whole number bigger than zero.

Don't believe me?

Then scroll down, and prepare to be

AMAZED!

Please write a number in this box:

And I will write it as a sum of three palindromes

BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES!

=

INCREDIBLE!

It really does work for any number - scroll back up and try another one.

This incredible mathematical hat-trick is based on the paper
Every positive integer is a sum of three palindromes
by Javier Cilleruelo, Florian Luca and Lewis Baxter.

It was programmed by Christian Lawson-Perfect.