Question: March 14 is not only Pi Day but also the birthday of Albert Einstein. Einstein’s date of birth of March 14, 1879, can be written as 3141879. In mathematics, a palindrome is a number that can be written such that it reads the same when read from left to right or right to left (131, 3553, and 64546 are examples).
Find the smallest palindrome which is larger in value than 3141879.
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3142413
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