Palindrome Days

Palindromes abound this month and every year there’s usually a streak of them to be found. The date in digits today (5-15-15-without the dashes 51515) is a palindrome, in this case a group of numbers that read the same either backwards or forwards. Palindromes can also be words like racecar, but I like number palindromes. You can turn any set of numbers into a palindrome by simply adding the digits in reverse to the original the digits in their original order. Example: 123+321=444 or 1203+3021=4224. I could go on and on but if the numbers don’t add up into a palindrome right away things get a little trickier. You just keep adding them reversing the sum of each pair until eventually they do. It took a whole sheet of notebook paper to turn the digits representing the year I was born into a palindrome but it finally did happen! But I will give you this hint; it is easier for peeps born in the 2000s to turn the year they were born into a palindrome and if you were born in 2002 you don’t have to do any addition at all!