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From our neighbors to the south (University of Portland) come
these facts about today’s date: - One: It’s a palindrome - Two:
It’s an extremely rare one. Simply, a palindrome is a symmetric
word, phrase, number or other sequence of units that reads the
same forward and backward. According to University of Portland
engineering professor Aziz S. Inan, who has in several places
published a lot of variations on palindrome dates, palindrome
dates are rare but today’s date – 11022011 – is extremely rare.
Why? Because it is an eight-digit palindrome day, for one. Here
it is in Turkish: Now for the number blur According to the
professor’s article in The Beacon, the university’s student
newspaper: Nov. 2, 2011 represented as 11022011 is a one-of-a-
kind palindrome date with respect to all palindrome dates
contained in all four-digit years. Why? "First, number 11022011
equals 7 x 7 x 11 x 11 x 11 x 13 x 13, that is, the product of
seven square, eleven cube