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  1. ronald's post in Palindromes by multiplication was marked as the answer   
    Yes, this can be proven.
    The proof is relatively simple but it does require knowledge of Euler's theorem and Euler's totient function (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler's_theorem) 
    The proof consists of 3 steps and  constructs an explicit palindrome for every number n that is not divisible by 10. This will be a possible solution, but by no means the smallest palindrome divisible by n. In fact the constructed palindrome get very large.
    1) Find a solution for n=2k or n=5k for every integer k=1,2,3,....
    2) Find a solution for any value of n that does not contain a factor 2 or 5
    3) Find a solution for any value of n that does contain a factor 2 or 5
     
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