Find the largest palindrome made from the product of two 3-digit numbers

Question

package testing.project;

public class PalindromeThreeDigits {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        int value = 0;
        for(int i = 100;i <=999;i+         


        

Answer 1

Since we are not cycling down both iterators (num1 and num2) at the same time, the first palindrome number we find will be the largest. We don’t need to test to see if the palindrome we found is the largest. This significantly reduces the time it takes to calculate.

package testing.project;
public class PalindromeThreeDigits {
    public static void main(String[] args) {

    int limit = 99;
    int max = 999;
    int num1 = max, num2, prod;

    while(num1 > limit)
    {
        num2 = num1;
        while(num2 > limit)
        {
            total = num1 * num2;
            StringBuilder sb1 = new StringBuilder(""+prod);
            String sb2 = ""+prod;
            sb1.reverse();
            if( sb2.equals(sb1.toString()) ) {    //optimized here
                //print and exit
            }
            num2--;
        }
        num1--;
    }

 }//end of main
 }//end of class PalindromeThreeDigits