Don’t know? Don’t feel bad. Six of the brightest math minds at Lincoln’s high schools couldn’t figure out that one Thursday. But they figured out plenty of other math problems that would have stymied ...

The number 1888081808881 is interesting on several counts. First, it’s a prime number, evenly divisible only by itself and 1. In base 10, it’s also a palindromic number. It has the same sequence of ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. A palindrome is a word, sentence or verse that reads the same forward and backwards, that is, from ...

Problem 1 is all about palindromes: words, phrases or numbers that read the same forwards or backwards. Maths teacher Chris Smith is here to explain. WOW! The Maths Week Scotland Daily Challenges have ...

Perhaps palindromes don’t need promotion. After all, the symmetry of numbers, words and phrases that are the same written backward as they are forward — such as “Madam, I’m Adam” — is pretty cool and ...