(thing) by oni_no_snipe Tue Apr 11 2000 at 17:18:59

The US Cryptography Department according to the book Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. Supposedly originally named "2701" because it is the product of the two largest reversible two-digit prime numbers; 37 and 73. It was decided that this was "too easy" and so 1 was added to it.

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