Thursday, May 26, 2011

Palindromes


Yesterday, stuck in Moscow's traffic jam on my way to Домоде́дово Airport, I was wondering about Palindromes.

For example:

1 x 1 = 1 (trivial)
11 x 11 = 121
111 x 111 = 12 321
1 111 x 1 111 = 1 234 321
11 111 x 11 111 = 123 454 321
...
...
111 111 111 x 111 111 111 = 12 345 678 987 654 321

nice, isn't it?