What Is a Palindrome? Biden's Inauguration Day Begins 10-Day Run of Rare Dates
On 1/20/21 at 11:05 AM EST
Today is President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration day, but there is something else special about the date: January 20, 2021, is a seven-digit palindrome when it is written out as 1/20/2021.
So what is a palindrome? Oxford Languages dictionary defines a palindrome as "a word, phrase, or sequence that reads the same backward as forwards, e.g. madam or nurses run."
The word palindrome was first used in the early 17th century and comes from the Greek
palindromos, which means "running back again", from
palin meaning "again" and