pecrosby
Jun 8, 2011, 11:52 AM
I am trying to find a two 6-digit palindromes whose difference would be less than 50. Thank you!
ebaines
Jun 8, 2011, 12:16 PM
How about:
099990
100001
Difference is 11
In general any two successive palindromes of the form
a9999a
(a+1)0000(a+1)
Have a difference of 11.
jcaron2
Jun 8, 2011, 01:23 PM
Or, if you don't think 099990 is a six-digit number, the leading and trailing 0 and 1 can be swapped with 1 and 2, 2 and 3, 3 and 4, etc. (e.g. 400004 and 399993).
Wasn't that last week's puzzler on Car Talk?