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    J. Ewart H. Shaw

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The true significance of 8,208, the number referred to in the News Feature, is that it is one of only three four-digit numbers that are the sum of the fourth powers of their digits — Editor, Nature.

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Shaw, J. Summing up The Simpsons. Nature 448, 865 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/448865c

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