A Little exercise

Lets Excercise Our Brains A Little Bit...
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Two friends were leaving the restaurant
and as they passed the cashier, one of them
paid his bill but the other handed the
cashier a slip of paper with the number
1004180 written on it.

The cashier studied
the number for a moment, and then let the friend pass by without paying. Why?...