palindrome day

palindrome day



Happy January 2, 2010 ... and not just because we are on the second day in what some call a new decade.

For the second time in more than six centuries, the date can be read as a mirror image.

In the month-day-year format (DD-MM-YYYY) can be written as 01.02.2010, which is the version number of a palindrome. That is a word (rotator) or phrase (Madam, I'm Adam) that reads the same backwards and forwards.

The last time this happened was October 2, 2001 - o 10/02/2001 - said Aziz Inan, professor of electrical engineering at the University of Portland.

And before that? You have to go back a bit