(Gray News) – Along with being Groundhog Day and Super Bowl Sunday, today is special for another reason: The date is an extra rare, eight-digit palindrome.
A palindrome is defined as a word, phrase or sequence that reads the same forward as backward.
One example is the word “madam.” Another is Sunday’s date, if it’s written as 02/02/2020.
This date is extra special because it’s a palindrome in both the MM/DD/YYYY format – the American date system – and the DD/MM/YYYY format, which is used in many other countries, making it a global eight-digit palindrome.
It’s the only time such a palindrome date will occur this century, and it’s the first such palindrome date since 11/11/1111, more than 900 years ago, the Washington Post reports.
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