Palindrome 28082

Figure 1: Gemini Generated

Figure 1 depicts the number associated with my diurnal age today: the palindromic cyclops number \( \textbf{28082}\). I quite like the depiction. The previous such number, 27072, occurred on the 18th May 2023 and I celebrated its occurrence with a post titled Another Palindromic Cyclops Number. Prior to this, I was 26062 days old on the 10th August 2020 and again I created a post, titled Palindromic Cyclops Numbers. These numbers occur every 1010 days except when the transition involves a new leading digit. For example, following 29092, the next palindromic cyclops number is 30003 and the two are only separated by 11 days.

The number 28082 has no outstanding or unusual properties and so in this post I'm only celebrating it in terms of it being another base 10 milestone. After repeated failures using Nano Bananas, Gemini offered to implement the graphic shown in Figure 2 using Python code. There are 28 letters in the phrase "TWENTY EIGHT THOUSAND EIGHTY TWO" and the graphic depicts this. The number in digit format consists of 28, a central 0 and then 28 reversed. There are also 28 days in this current month of February. Today is the 20th of February and the digit sum of 28082 is 20.

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