Alice thinks that contest problem authors' obsession with palindromes is misplaced. She is much fonder of n-palindromes, which are words that are palindromes when the characters at exactly n positions ...

I’m expecting to see quite a few social media posts regarding palindromes. After all, some of my friends and my daughter are fans of patterns in numbers. This month, we’ll have ten palindrome dates we ...

Yep, 2002 is a palindrome — a word or number that reads the same forward and backward. Since we hit four digits back in A.D. 1000, we have had only 10 palindromic years: 1001, 1111 (Crusades: Serfs ...