Problem 172. Test if a Number is a Palindrome without using any String Operations

Created by @bmtran (Bryant Tran)

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Freddy on 22 Mar 2012

Nice expression for the usage test. Maybe one can add function "dec2base", cause the return type is a String.

Christian Schröder on 15 Jul 2019

The problem description should mention that dec2base isn't allowed either.

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Paul Berglund on 17 Sep 2013

This will fail to detect certain palindromes which contain zero e.g. 10101 however the test suite doesn't (yet) contain any such.

Solution 51938

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Nikolai on 26 Feb 2012

There's something strange with the Cody test suites today...

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number palindrome powers of 10

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