The Shaws wrote: > Extract from The Daily Telegraph (Letters to the Editor): > > Back and Forth > > SIR - It might be worth pointing out that the year 2002 consists of a > palindrome, being the same backward as forwards. Palindromic years occur > normally only once in 110 years (as in 1661,1771,1881, etc). However, at the > end of each millennium, the gap is only 11 years, instead of 110, so we had > a palindromic year in 1991 and again in 2002; but there will not be another > one until 2112. > We are thus the only generation between the Norman Conquest and the year > 3000 to experience two palindromic years within a normal lifetime. > > Canon Richard Tydeman > Felixtowe, Suffolk > > Up and over > Sir - Canon Tydeman observes that ours is the only generation to experience > two palindromic years, 1991 and 2002, in a normal lifetime (letter, Dec. > 29). > 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
Hi all, This topic was discussed a few weeks ago on CALNDR-L and both authors appear to be unaware that the years 1991 and 2002 share more things than just being palindromic. In both years 1991 and 2002 (as well as in 1771) Easter Sunday falls on the same day (31 March) and all days in these years necessarily fall on the same weekdays - i.e. their wall calendars with all the associated (Christian) holidays will be identical. The next palindromic year up to 9999 with the same properties as 1771, 1991 and 2002 is the year 5005. Regards, ======================================================== * Robert H. van Gent * Tel/Fax: 00-31-30-2720269 * * Zaagmolenkade 50 * * * 3515 AE Utrecht * E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * The Netherlands * * ******************************************************** * Homepage: http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/homepage.htm * ========================================================
