The Backward Check
Albert Jones went to cash a check in a bank. The bank teller, named Bonzo Sludge, had just smoked some weed and his mental faculties were distorted leading him to wrongly read the amount written on the check, the numbers swimming around in his head and forming an amount in reverse order.
Bonzo Sludge paid Albert Jones the erroneous amount with a silly, cross-eyed grin on his face and continued playing his video game on the computer at the teller station.
After receiving the money, Albert Jones checked the amount paid out to him and noticed that money was missing and that the missing amount was a square number.
Albert Jones returned to resolve the error with bank teller Bonzo Sludge, but after receiving a vacuous, bovine and uncomprehending look Albert Jones decided to head for the bank manager’s office, where he received the missing amount of money and assurances the personnel glitch would be remedied.
Can you work out what the missing amount was?
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