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Re: new year's problem <SPOILER?>

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From: Rick McFarland
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 20:32
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In article <1993Jan4.170315.19491@math.toronto.edu>, hsieh@math.toronto.edu (Paul Hsieh) writes:
|> In article <1993Jan2.1584.7529@channel1> "eliot gelwan" <eliot.gelwan@channel1.com> writes:
|> >On 12-31-92 KEITH F. LYNCH  wrote:
|> >
|> >KF/What property did 1987 have, that no year after it will have
|> >KF/until 2013?
|> >
|> >Prime numbers
|> >
|> >KF/What property did 1961 have, that no year
|> >after it will have until 6009?
|> >
|> >turn 'em upside down and see.
|> >
|> 
|> What property did 1991 have that I shared and wont share again until I am
|> 33?



Is this correct?   You were 22 in 1991 and will be 33 in 2002.  Your age and the year are the same whem
written backwards.




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