The Washington Post, September 8th, 1998
Parent to child: "You grew almost an inch this month! If you keep growing that fast, how tall will you be when you're my age?" You are traveling with a child in a car. It's a long trip and you are passed by a large truck with a sign on its side that says "EGGS." You wonder out loud how many eggs the truck could hold. The two of you estimate its dimensions and those of an average egg. You were born in 1991? Lucky kid. Your birth year is a palindrome (reads the same backward or forward). When was the last palindromic year? When was the one before that? And before that? Are palindromic years alw...
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