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About Palindrome 22 and others as well

22 is a palindrome and features in Joseph Heller's book Catch-22


The star-nosed mole has 22 pink, fleshy "feelers" at the end of its snout.
[ communicated by G. L. Honaker, Jr. dd. December 12, 2000 ]


33 is a palindrome and I quote from John Grant's work "A book of Numbers"
'The human backbone is made up of 33 vertebrae,
the lower 9 of which are fused together while the upper 24 are joined with ligaments'



88 is a palindrome and I quote again from John Grant's work "A book of Numbers"
'There are 88 keys on the standard piano keyboard, of which 52 are white and 36 are black'


99 is a palindrome and features in Nena's song Neunundneunzig Luftballons


101 is a palindrome and features in Disney's film 101 Dalmatians


212 is a palindrome and the boiling point of water in degrees Fahrenheit.


242 is a palindrome and the guys from Front 242
are the godfathers (orig. Belgium) of Electronic Body Music.


1001 is a palindrome and we all heard about the 1001 Fairy Tales from the Palace of Pleasure.

Bonus : What is the Arabian Nights factorial, the number x such that x! has 1001 digits ?




A000032 Prime Curios! Prime Puzzle
Wikipedia 32 Le Nombre 32 Numberland 32














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