Birthday Palindromes

Birthdays are fun because they are special to each of us. In fact, every day on average about 18 million people worldwide celebrate their birthday.

Mathematicians like birthdays because they can each be made into an 8-digit number with 2-digits for the month and day and 4-digits for the year. One digit months get a zero before the number like my month of July would be 07.

January 01, February 02, March 03, April 04, May 05, June 06, July 07, August 08, September 09, Octobler 10, November 11, December 12.

My birthday is 07171962 and this year it was 07172012. Neither of these are palindromes. For example, if you were born October 2nd, 2001, your birthday is a palindrome -- 10022001.

Use the attached document to go through the steps of finding out when your birthday will be a palindrome.

For example, my birthday will be a palindrome in the year 7170 -- 07177170. This is 5158 years from now and when I reach the age of 5208 years old.