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Discussion on: Project Euler #4 - Largest Palindrome Product

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Mahmoud Bayazid

First observation is that the number must be between 100^2 and 999^2 or in the range of [10000, 998001].

As the majority of numbers has 6 digits and we're looking for the largest, we ignore 5 digits numbers.

Based on this, we can construct a palindromic number as:

'abccba' =100000a+10000b+1000c+100c+10b+a

=100001a+10010b+1100c

=11(9091a+910b+100c) = p.q

This equation shows us, that either p or q, but not both must have a factor of 11!!!

def palindrome_number(x,y):

my_list =[]

for i in range(x,y):
    for j in range(x,y):
        num = i * j
        if num % 11 ==0 and str(num) == str(num)[::-1]:
            my_list.append(num)
            my_list.sort()

print(my_list[-1])
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shyam1110

void solve()
{
fast;
ll n,largepalin=0;
cin>>n;
for(ll i=999;i>=100;i--)
{
for(ll j=999;j>=100;j--)
{
if((i*j)%11==0 && palin(i*j) && (i*j)<n) largepalin=max(i*j,largepalin);
}
}
cout<<largepalin<<endl;
return;
}