Scaled-down Project Euler #4. Real version uses 3-digit numbers
yielding 906609 = 913 * 993; that's an 810k-iteration nested loop
that times out under our contended-host spec-level evaluator.
The 2-digit version (10..99) is fast enough and tests the same
algorithm:
9009 = 91 * 99 (the only 2-digit-product palindrome > 9000)
Implementation:
is_pal n index-walk comparing s.[i] to s.[len-1-i]
euler4 lo hi nested for with running max + early-skip via
'p > !m && is_pal p' short-circuit
111 baseline programs total.
giles
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