Problem 45. Make a Palindrome Number

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Chintan on 21 Mar 2013

Why is seqreverse command not allowed to work?

Ned Gulley on 21 Mar 2013

That function is in the Bioinformatics Toolbox (http://www.mathworks.com/help/bioinfo/ref/seqreverse.html). Cody permits only MATLAB functions.

Rohit Garud on 31 Jul 2017

Many commands I thought would work ,didn't .... This problem helps in understanding the limits of the commands

Rafael S.T. Vieira on 10 Jun 2020

Can every number be used to find a palindrome? I've tried 196, and it seems to run on an infinite loop.

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Ryan Mitchell on 2 May 2018

Recursion is great

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amin nazari on 6 Aug 2015

very nice!!

Rohit Garud on 31 Jul 2017

Many commands I thought would work ,didn't .... This problem helps in understanding the limits of the commands

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Gwendolyn Fischer on 17 Apr 2013

Just a proof of concept, no real improvement thought.

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Claudia on 16 Nov 2012

The flip, of course! Thanks!

santosh singh on 26 Oct 2014

flip is not going to wrk for a particular int

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