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
>
Hi,
At the end of the first millenium the year 999 was also palindromic, so
there was only 2 years to the next one in the following millenium : 1001.
In this first millenium palindromic years were 111 years apart.
JP Cornec
Lannion, France
48°44'N 3°27'W
