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Given:

The number is a Palindromic year. $PQ$ is a concatenated number.

$ U , V $ are two distinct positive integers

Expressed as

$ PQ ^ U + PQ ^ V + PQ ^ V + PQ ^ U $

Find at least two other Palindromic Properties associated with this number !

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  • $\begingroup$ Answer should also include at least two other palindromic properties associated..it could be another expression, visual symmetry etc.. $\endgroup$
    – Uvc
    Commented May 17, 2019 at 11:41

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One possible solution

$2112$

Reasoning

Without loss of generality, suppose $U < V$, then we can simplify the expression to $$2(PQ^U)(PQ^{V-U}+1)$$ Given that we are looking for a "year" and that this is also even, it is likely that the year begins with $2$.
Then, we can look at the simplest case where $U=V-U=1$ and the expression becomes $$2(PQ)(PQ-1)$$ If we start with $2002$, we see that this factorises as $2 \times 7 \times 11 \times 13$ and can determine relatively quickly that this cannot match the above expression.
Continuing on with $2112$, we see that this factorises as $2^6 \times 3 \times 11 = 2 \times 2^5 \times 3 \times 11 = 2 \times 32 \times 33$ which is conveniently in the form above.
Hence we have $$PQ = 32 \,\,\,\,,\,\,\,\, U=1\,\,\,\,,\,\,\,\, V=2$$

Two other palindromic properties:

1. If we write $2112$ on a digital display and rotate $180^o$, the result is again $2112$.
2. The number $2112$ can be expressed as a palindromic product, that is $$2112 = 2 \times 33 \times 32 = (2)(33)(32)$$

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