Double-base palindromes

Author: xenu

The decimal number, 585 = 1001001001_2 (binary), is palindromic in both bases.

Find the sum of all numbers, less than one million, which are palindromic in base 10 and base 2.

(Please note that the palindromic number, in either base, may not include leading zeros.)

use v6;

#
# DON'T TRY  EXECUTING THIS SCRIPT WITH RAKUDO 2010.08 OR OLDER!
# Because of memory leak in these versions, this code eats tens of gigabytes of RAM
#

sub MAIN(Bool :$verbose = False) {
    my $palindromNumbersSum = 0;
    loop (my $i = 1; $i <= 999999; $i+=2) {
        if ( ($i.flip == $i) && (sprintf('%b',$i).flip == sprintf('%b',$i)) ) {
            $palindromNumbersSum += $i;
        }
        if $verbose {
            say "Checked $i of 999999 numbers" unless $i % 99999;
        }

    }
    if $verbose {
        say "Number of double-base palindromes: $palindromNumbersSum";
    }
    else {
        say $palindromNumbersSum;
    }
}