Not only is a palindromic year highly unusual (always room to exclaim over a palindrome ...) but for the first time in recorded history I've entered all my business mileage for the previous year into a computer file by January 1st. Not sure I can stand the shock. Susan At 10:35 PM 1/1/2002 -0600, you wrote: >Just in case no one had noticed, I thought I'd point out that this year >2002 is rather special, in that it is a palindrome. The last one we saw was >1991, and the next will be in 2112. As you can see there are significant >"dry spells" between such events, so feel free to whoop it up a little if >the mood strikes you. Seeing two palindrome years in a lifetime is a rather >rare event. The last time anyone under 110 years old got this treat was in >1001, and they only had to wait two years for theirs. Of course some of >them had already seen three or more by then and probably weren't that >impressed anymore anyway. > >For what it's worth. >Ron N
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