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A positive integer is said to be a (decadic) palindromic number or, shortly, a palindrome if it is the same as the number obtained by arranging its digits in reverse order. Let \(\{a_n\}_{n=1}^\infty\) be a noncompact arithmetic progression of positive integers with common difference \(d\). In this paper the authors show that \(\{a_n\}_{n=1}^\infty\) contains infinitely many palindromes if and only if \(10\nmid a_1\), or \(10\nmid d\). More generally, for any number system \(b\), they also obtain the similar result that \(\{a_n\}_{n=1}^\infty\) contains infinitely many palindromes if and only if \(b\nmid a_1\), or \(b\nmid d\). Finally, they propose the open problem to characterize geometric progressions without palindromic members.