Behold the solution to The Wright Challenge: Crouching Puzzle, Hidden Answer #2.   If you forgot the actual question, click here to see it again.

There were a lot of correct answers.  The simplest one seems to be 

555,555,555,555,555,555,555,555,555,555 

which is 11 * 50,505,050,505,050,505,050,505,050,505

(Team Sentral Trig contributed one that, upside-down, spelled "hheeeeeebbeeeeeeggeeeebbeeeess!" which just... well... gave Doctor E the heebeegeebees, and Tim K. came up with 337799774499883333558833224411 which has the property that ever other digit in order equals 11 to the fourteenth power.)

A truly wonderful book which discussed anteaters, classical composers, and open mathematical conjectures is Godel Escher Bach, an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstader.  Many of Doctor E's current interests can be traced back to books that were in the bibliography of GEB.  Hofstader takes a wealth of interesting topics about mathematics, art, computers, music, anteaters, Zen, wordplay, etc..., and weaves them into a tapestry that makes them all seem related.   

(Another such book is 2000 Percent Solutions by Mitchell and Co. management consultants, which was discovered by the South Page geometry class)

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