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What is Palindrome Week?

This Palindrome Week will be the last of the century!

Palindrome dates are rare - Photo: File Photo/EL UNIVERSAL
10/09/2019 |12:47Newsroom/EL UNIVERSAL in English |
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A Palindrome Day happens when a date can be read the same way backward and forwards . This way, the dates are similar to word palindromes because they are symmetrical , for example, you can read the word “ Bob ” can be read both ways.

This year, the dates between September 10 and September 19 are considered as Palindrome Week !

For many, Palindrome Week has a mystic significance. Palindrome Week is said to bring “ immense and significant change , when major transformation occurs.”

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Moreover, this Palindrome Week will be the last of the century.

This is the 2019 Palindrome Week :

9-10-19

9-11-19

9-12-19

9-13-19

9-14-19

9-15-19

9-16-19

9-17-19

9-18-19

9-19-19

Palindrome dates are rare

According to Aziz S. Inan , a professor at the University of Portland , depending on date formats , palindromic dates can be rare. He has calculated that in the mm-dd-yyyy format, Palindrome Days tend to occur only in the first few centuries of each millennium (1000 years).

According to Inan , there are 12 Palindrome Days in the 21st century in the mm-dd-yyyy format. The first one was on October 2, 2001 (10-02-2001) and the last one will be on September 2, 2090 (09-02-2090).

In the dd-mm-yyyy format, there are 29 Palindrome Days in the current century. The first was 10 February 2001 (10-02-2001). The last is a special one, a leap day: 29 February 2092 (29-02-2092) will be the last Palindrome Day of the 21st century.

According to Hugo Dixon , a business journalist, “The beauty of these numbers is in the eye of the beholder. There can be no consensus over what constitutes a date that has numerological significance .”

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