LongNbrs and palindromes: an interesting application of a class

-. t\ Whatstartedoff asanenrichmentassignmentfor a third graderhasdevelopedinto arich sourceof programmingassignments.Thelong integers,needed to determinewhetheranumbereventuallybecomesa palindromeundertheprocessof reversalandaddition, cribed,asanabstractdatatypeand implementedasaC+t class. Thereareintriguing openquestionswhich call for greatcreativity and efficiency in termsof datastructures.Evengraphics ’havebeenemployedto illuminate theproblem. The next stepis probablyparallelprocessing.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 1998
• Where: SIGCSE
• Authors: Christine Shannon
• Keywords: Education, Graderhasdevelopedinto Arich, ImplementedasaC+t Class, Programmingassignments.Thelong Integers, SIGCSE 1998