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Palindrome from palindrome (Posted on 2012-03-12) Difficulty: 3 of 5
Consider all possible word palindromes containing three or more letters. Now, consider each of them as a numeral in the base 36 system and convert them to the base ten system. For a few of these words, this base ten value will be a number palindrome (without leading zeroes.)

What are the respective word palindromes that have the minimum value and the maximum value in the base ten system with this property?

(For example, civic is a word palindrome containing five letters. Converting civic (base 36) to base ten we obtain 21036036, which is not a number palindrome. So, civic does NOT have the desired property.)

Notes:

(a) Words involving proper nouns, abbreviations or acronyms is not permissible.

(b) None of the words can be hyphenated. For example, words like A-bomb, X-Ray etc. are not allowed.

  Submitted by K Sengupta    
Rating: 3.0000 (1 votes)
Solution: (Hide)
GAG (base ten value: 21112) and TAT (base ten value:37973) are the only possible solutions in conformity with the provisions of the problem.

For palindromic "base-36" words of length 2, Dej Mar found OO (888), the Hawaiian honeyeater (Moho nobilis).

Ignoring the spaces and punctuation (and ignoring these differences in their palindromic representation), Dej Mar found a base-36 palindrome that in conversion is a palindrome in base-10, that one might command of one's young pet dog:
PUP, UP! UP! (56276867265).

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  Subject Author Date
SolutionTeaching a new dog old tricksDej Mar2012-03-12 14:40:13
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