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andrewcooke on April 21, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ruby is too slow for programming competitions

most numbers are not palindromes. so generate palindromes, and then test.

mrgordon on April 21, 2013 [–]

yes exactly, this is how a friend did it in jruby (he got a perfect score)

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