public bool IsPalindrome(int x) { // Special cases: // As discussed above, when x < 0, x is not a palindrome. // Also if the last digit of the number is 0, in order to be a palindrome, // the first digit of the number also needs to be 0. // Only 0 satisfy this property. if(x < 0 || (x % 10 == 0 && x != 0)) { return false; } int revertedNumber = 0; while(x > revertedNumber) { revertedNumber = revertedNumber * 10 + x % 10; x /= 10; } // When the length is an odd number, we can get rid of the middle digit by revertedNumber/10 // For example when the input is 12321, at the end of the while loop we get x = 12, revertedNumber = 123, // since the middle digit doesn't matter in palidrome(it will always equal to itself), we can simply get rid of it. return x == revertedNumber || x == revertedNumber/10; }