ABSTRACT

What is a palindrome? The usual meaning of palindrome is a word or phrase that reads the same foward or backward. Familiar examples are: dad, toot, radar, and ‘Madam I’m Adam.’ The word “palindrome” comes from the Greek word “palindromos” and means “running back again.” Since numbers can also “run back again,” we will use the word palindrome to mean a number whose digits read the same forward or backward. All numbers will be written in base 10.