ass Solution { public int largestPalindrome(int n) { // if input is 1 then max is 9 if(n == 1){ return 9; } // if n = 3 then upperBound = 999 and lowerBound = 99 int upperBound = (int) Math.pow(10, n) - 1, lowerBound = upperBound / 10; long maxNumber = (long) upperBound * (long) upperBound; // represents the first half of the maximum assumed palindrom. // e.g. if n = 3 then maxNumber = 999 x 999 = 998001 so firstHalf = 998 int firstHalf = (int)(maxNumber / (long) Math.pow(10, n)); boolean palindromFound = false; long palindrom = 0; while (!palindromFound) { // creates maximum assumed palindrom // e.g. if n = 3 first time the maximum assumed palindrom will be 998 899 palindrom = createPalindrom(firstHalf); // here i and palindrom/i forms the two factor of assumed palindrom for (long i = upperBound; upperBound > lowerBound; i--) { // if n= 3 none of the factor of palindrom can be more than 999 or less than square root of assumed palindrom if (palindrom / i > maxNumber || i * i < palindrom) { break; } // if two factors found, where both of them are n-digits, if (palindrom % i == 0) { palindromFound = true; break; } } firstHalf--; } return (int) (palindrom % 1337); } private long createPalindrom(long num) { String str = num + new StringBuilder().append(num).reverse().toString(); return Long.parseLong(str); } }