Happy Palindrome Day, Los Angeles!
Today’s date is 11,02,2011, making the date a rare palindrome – meaning it reads the same forwards and backwards. Aziz Inan, a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Portland, spoke with the Los Angeles Times about what makes today’s date special:
Inan, who has taken on the discovery of palindrome dates as a sort of hobby, explained that there will only be 12 eight-digit palindrome days this entire century.
In addition to the automatic awesomeness of a date being a palindrome, Inan points out that Wednesday’s date is extra special because it is 1001 x 11 x 1001, or the product of a mathematical expression in which both sides are almost mirror images of one another.
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