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2018-12-08

@Melli: the second digit doesn't need to be even, only the final digit of the second column must be even (the column contains a three digit even number). I'm going to add a clarification to make this clearer.

Matthew
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2018-12-08

@Matthew: Oooh ...

Melli
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