In a message dated 1/7/2002 5:59:27 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > It is also worth recording that many of us also experienced the year 1961, > which reads the same when viewed normally or upside down; an inverted > palindrome, perhaps? There have only been three other such years since the > Norman Conquest and there will not be another until 6009. > Richard Woodside. London W8 Well, if you write your 2's in the same shape that they are formed in an older LCD display calculator, then 2002 reads the same upside down as right side up. So there. Even more off the track, but fun nonetheless, is that if you write out the number nine in cursive, and don't dot the "i", you can get it to read the same inverted as right side up (ref. Martin Gardner, Scientific American long ago). Bill Gottesman Burlington, VT 44.4674N, 73.2027W
