Re: Challenge: Nearest Palindromic Number

I don't think this yields an elegant solution. At least, not one that is anywhere faster than the brute force one.

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Re^2: Challenge: Nearest Palindromic Number by herveus (Prior) on Feb 02, 2005 at 20:08 UTC
Howdy! The problem is to find which of the two nearest palindromic numbers is closest. If missing one of the pair when both are equally distant is acceptable (as in the problem as laid out here), then slinging strings is both fast and elegant, given that palindromicity is a string property, not a numeric property. The solution Roy_Johnson got into print before I could (and which is a refinement of halley's, attacks the given problem about as elegantly as you can. yours, Michael	[reply]

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Re^2: Challenge: Nearest Palindromic Number
by herveus (Prior) on Feb 02, 2005 at 20:08 UTC

The problem is to find which of the two nearest palindromic numbers is closest. If missing one of the pair when both are equally distant is acceptable (as in the problem as laid out here), then slinging strings is both fast and elegant, given that palindromicity is a string property, not a numeric property.

The solution Roy_Johnson got into print before I could (and which is a refinement of halley's, attacks the given problem about as elegantly as you can.

yours,
Michael

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