… unless you write your dates the “American way”, i.e., MMDDYYYY there is big news for you: an upcoming palindrome date to mark in red in your calendar for an unforgettable event!
Palindromes are words or sentences that maintain the same meaning whether you read them forward or reversed. The names “Anna“ and “Otto” are simple examples of Palindromes. February 22nd, 2022, is a Palindrome when written as a number 22022022 in DDMMYYYY format. So in case, you missed out on the recent 02022020 — save the next palindrome date — these are pretty rare. This little Python script illustrates that we will only encounter 10 Palindrome dates in the next 30 years:
It’s a bit of a wait until the next one, eight years later in 2030! The number is even more unique when considering that it only uses two different digits, i.e., two and zero. There are only ten of them in the next 4000 years:
