>>>>A palyndrome is a word, phrase or number which doesn't change if you spell it backwards.
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>>>>The current year number (in the Gregorian Calendar), 2002, is one of those. The next palyndrome occurs only in 110 years (2112).
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>>>That's what comes of adding the century in our lives; only a few years ago we'd have said it was 02 right now. So in 18 years time we'd already have another palyndrome ... snif.
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>>Better so, for Y2K problems. Reminds me of one funny case of a Y2K problem (that happened
before 2000) was of a grandmother who received an invitation to join Kindergarten. She was 105 years old, not 5... The computers had listed all persons born in a certain town, in the year "93" or so.
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>>Hilmar.
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>And, did she survive that ?
Well, I know no further details. It just striked me as a funny case of Y2K. Pressumably, one without dire consequences (laughter can actually be good for health, you know...)
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
