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Palindromic Years

Problem

A palindromic year is one which reads the same forwards and backwards. There were no other palindromic years between 1991 and 2002, which is a gap of 11 years.

Since year 1 A.D., what was the largest gap between two consecutive palindromic years?

Problem ID: 143 (Jan 2004)     Difficulty: 1 Star

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