Consider, for example, the number 420109. It's quite big, isn't it? Not so far from half a million. Yet it can be interpreted to be smaller than a hundred with a very simple trick, without putting any mathematical operators between the digits, without using any mathematical function on it, and without erasing or hiding parts of it.

**How?**

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Hint 1

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>  There are a few other 6-digit numbers this could work with, but not many.
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Hint 2

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>  Not only can it "be made smaller", 420109 actually *is* smaller than 100 from a certain viewpoint. There are very few 6-digit numbers where this can be applied.
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