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Palindromes

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 6:40 pm
by Ian Fitzpatrick
Watching Eggheads yesterday I came across a long palindrome I hadn't seen before, I repeat it for you here in case it is new to you (unlikely I know!).

A MAN A PLAN A CANAL PANAMA

Anyone aware of any longer ones?

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 6:44 pm
by Gavin Chipper
If you can sleep right through the night without being interrupted, I think you can beat that by a lot.

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Re: Palindromes

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 6:46 pm
by Charlie Reams

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 6:48 pm
by Michael Wallace
That's not a palindrome.

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 6:58 pm
by JimBentley
There's a palindromic novel called "Dr. Awkward & Olson in Oslo" but the text doesn't seem to be on the internets anywhere. I thought everything was on the internets these days?

Also, this thread seems to be about ten pages wide :?

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:00 pm
by Ian Fitzpatrick
JimBentley wrote: Also, this thread seems to be about ten pages wide :?
Yeah but I don't know why!!

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:23 pm
by Sue Sanders
Ian Fitzpatrick wrote:
JimBentley wrote: Also, this thread seems to be about ten pages wide :?
Yeah but I don't know why!!
"It's Ade, Cilla, Sue, Dame Vita, Edna, Nino, Emo! Come on in and eat, I've made us all iced asti." (Stephen Fry)

Bill Bryson writes of palindromes in his book 'Mother Tongue'.

Hmm. Now, where's the submit button disappeared to - the page has gone well weird.

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:04 pm
by Ben Hunter
I've never been able to understand the fascination with palindromes. They're basically symmetrical Jason Larsen posts.

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:21 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Palindromes are fascinating. They're basically symmetrical Jason Larsen posts.

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 7:19 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Ian Fitzpatrick wrote:
JimBentley wrote: Also, this thread seems to be about ten pages wide :?
Yeah but I don't know why!!
It's because of a really long palindrome that's decided to move into this thread and take up that much space. Can't you see him?

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 7:57 pm
by Sue Sanders
Gavin Chipper wrote:
Ian Fitzpatrick wrote:
JimBentley wrote: Also, this thread seems to be about ten pages wide :?
Yeah but I don't know why!!
It's because of a really long palindrome that's decided to move into this thread and take up that much space. Can't you see him?
Oh.
Yeah.
Lacking, of course, in any of the delights of a standard palindrome though.

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 10:18 pm
by Phil Reynolds
JimBentley wrote:Also, this thread seems to be about ten pages wide :?
Um, looks absolutely fine to me. Yet another reason to stick with the original skin.

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 10:22 pm
by Kieran Child
It doesn't make sense if I say "asifiesnesekamtnseodti"

^palindrome that flows better than most :D

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 2:03 am
by Dinos Sfyris
I think DanVan mentioned Weird Al Jankovic's cool palindrome song in a thread a while back but I can't find it.

For anyone who hasn't seen it already here's the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nej4xJe4Tdg

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 2:04 am
by Dinos Sfyris
Also:

NO, MEL GIBSON IS A CASINO'S BIG LEMON!

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 9:02 am
by Chris Corby
For those who are religious (see separate thread) (no, don't) the first words spoken by man was a palindrome:

"Madam, I'm Adam"

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 5:07 pm
by JimBentley
Phil Reynolds wrote:
JimBentley wrote:Also, this thread seems to be about ten pages wide :?
Um, looks absolutely fine to me. Yet another reason to stick with the original skin.
Really? Does that mean that you can't see the (very) long string of Zs in Gevin's post (which is the reason the topic is so wide)?

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 5:35 pm
by Ian Volante
JimBentley wrote:
Phil Reynolds wrote:
JimBentley wrote:Also, this thread seems to be about ten pages wide :?
Um, looks absolutely fine to me. Yet another reason to stick with the original skin.
Really? Does that mean that you can't see the (very) long string of Zs in Gevin's post (which is the reason the topic is so wide)?
I can't see them either!

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 5:37 pm
by Kieran Child
You can't? But they're such wonderful Zs, made of the finest silk. Only the ignorant cannot see.

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 5:40 pm
by Phil Reynolds
JimBentley wrote:
Phil Reynolds wrote:
JimBentley wrote:Also, this thread seems to be about ten pages wide :?
Um, looks absolutely fine to me. Yet another reason to stick with the original skin.
Really? Does that mean that you can't see the (very) long string of Zs in Gevin's post (which is the reason the topic is so wide)?
I can see the string, but it's truncated at the standard width of the message.

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 9:53 pm
by Sue Sanders
On mine, they're not zeds. Just a long line like an underscore. I want to see zeds. Why can I have zeds? :cry: Wah My smilies are all strung out on a long row though. And my submit button is very far away

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 10:25 pm
by Phil Reynolds
Sue Sanders wrote:On mine, they're not zeds. Just a long line like an underscore. I want to see zeds. Why can I have zeds? :cry: Wah My smilies are all strung out on a long row though. And my submit button is very far away
Given that I've already told you how to fix all of these problems at a stroke, it seems a bit perverse to go on about them.

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 10:33 pm
by Ian Volante
Phil Reynolds wrote:
Sue Sanders wrote:On mine, they're not zeds. Just a long line like an underscore. I want to see zeds. Why can I have zeds? :cry: Wah My smilies are all strung out on a long row though. And my submit button is very far away
Given that I've already told you how to fix all of these problems at a stroke, it seems a bit perverse to go on about them.
I don't ever remember changing skin on this forum!

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 10:42 pm
by Phil Reynolds
Ian Volante wrote:I don't ever remember changing skin on this forum!
The crap one ("AeroGreen") is the default. You need to change it to "prosilver" for it to work properly.

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 11:17 pm
by Sue Sanders
Phil Reynolds wrote:
Sue Sanders wrote:On mine, they're not zeds. Just a long line like an underscore. I want to see zeds. Why can I have zeds? :cry: Wah My smilies are all strung out on a long row though. And my submit button is very far away
Given that I've already told you how to fix all of these problems at a stroke, it seems a bit perverse to go on about them.
If by that you mean this 'skin' thing - I haven't got the first cocking notion what a skin is. This is a Countdown forum - a telly prog I happen to enjoy. It doesn't make me interested in computers. I happen to own a laptop which I'm able to switch on - that's as far as it goes.

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 11:39 pm
by Phil Reynolds
Sue Sanders wrote:This is a Countdown forum - a telly prog I happen to enjoy. It doesn't make me interested in computers. I happen to own a laptop which I'm able to switch on - that's as far as it goes.
I'd have thought the less interested in computers you were, the keener you'd be to make the experience of using one as painless as possible. But hey, what do I know.

In the unlikely event that you're interested, you change the skin (which is simply your preference for the 'look and feel' of the site) as follows:
  • Click the link at the top of the page that says User Control Panel
  • Under the Options menu on the left hand side, click the link that says Board preferences
  • Under Edit global settings, look for the line that says My board style:. From the drop-down list, select "prosilver". Then click the Submit button at the bottom of the page.
That's it. You can always change it back if you don't like it.

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 7:04 am
by Kevin Thurlow
"For those who are religious (see separate thread) (no, don't) the first words spoken by man was a palindrome:

"Madam, I'm Adam""

And the reported answer was, "Eve"...

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 7:49 am
by Ian Volante
Phil Reynolds wrote:
Sue Sanders wrote:This is a Countdown forum - a telly prog I happen to enjoy. It doesn't make me interested in computers. I happen to own a laptop which I'm able to switch on - that's as far as it goes.
I'd have thought the less interested in computers you were, the keener you'd be to make the experience of using one as painless as possible. But hey, what do I know.

In the unlikely event that you're interested, you change the skin (which is simply your preference for the 'look and feel' of the site) as follows:
  • Click the link at the top of the page that says User Control Panel
  • Under the Options menu on the left hand side, click the link that says Board preferences
  • Under Edit global settings, look for the line that says My board style:. From the drop-down list, select "prosilver". Then click the Submit button at the bottom of the page.
That's it. You can always change it back if you don't like it.
It turns out that the problem wasn't the skin, it's more that the really long string was in a minute font size! Why didn't anyone mention that? The page is still miles wide in prosilver too.

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 8:20 am
by Jon Corby
Ian Volante wrote:
Phil Reynolds wrote:
Sue Sanders wrote:This is a Countdown forum - a telly prog I happen to enjoy. It doesn't make me interested in computers. I happen to own a laptop which I'm able to switch on - that's as far as it goes.
I'd have thought the less interested in computers you were, the keener you'd be to make the experience of using one as painless as possible. But hey, what do I know.

In the unlikely event that you're interested, you change the skin (which is simply your preference for the 'look and feel' of the site) as follows:
  • Click the link at the top of the page that says User Control Panel
  • Under the Options menu on the left hand side, click the link that says Board preferences
  • Under Edit global settings, look for the line that says My board style:. From the drop-down list, select "prosilver". Then click the Submit button at the bottom of the page.
That's it. You can always change it back if you don't like it.
It turns out that the problem wasn't the skin, it's more that the really long string was in a minute font size! Why didn't anyone mention that? The page is still miles wide in prosilver too.
I use prosilver (in Google Chrome) and my page isn't miles wide.

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 8:35 am
by Phil Reynolds
Jon Corby wrote:
Ian Volante wrote:It turns out that the problem wasn't the skin, it's more that the really long string was in a minute font size! Why didn't anyone mention that? The page is still miles wide in prosilver too.
I use prosilver (in Google Chrome) and my page isn't miles wide.
I use prosilver (in Firefox) and my page isn't miles wide.

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 8:43 am
by Derek Hazell
I bet Gevin wishes he hadn't done that joke now - it's fallen flat.
Sue Sanders wrote:On mine, they're not zeds. Just a long line like an underscore.
Literally in some cases.

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 8:51 am
by Ian Volante
Phil Reynolds wrote:
Jon Corby wrote:
Ian Volante wrote:It turns out that the problem wasn't the skin, it's more that the really long string was in a minute font size! Why didn't anyone mention that? The page is still miles wide in prosilver too.
I use prosilver (in Google Chrome) and my page isn't miles wide.
I use prosilver (in Firefox) and my page isn't miles wide.
Okay, I'll check when I get home and am using Firefox. Right now I'm at work and stuck with IE6.

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 9:12 am
by Charlie Reams
Ian Volante wrote:Okay, I'll check when I get home and am using Firefox. Right now I'm at work and stuck with IE6.
Cruel and unusual punishment indeed.

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 9:17 am
by Jon Corby
I'm posting this from Internet Explorer 7 (prosilver) and the page isn't miles wild.

Wow, I'd forgotten how much better the font looks in IE than in Chrome though.

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 10:13 am
by Ian Volante
Jon Corby wrote:I'm posting this from Internet Explorer 7 (prosilver) and the page isn't miles wild.

Wow, I'd forgotten how much better the font looks in IE than in Chrome though.
Just a thought, do you mean that the page isn't at all miles wide, or do you mean that in prosilver it's possible to ignore that the page is miles wide, unlike in the other skins?

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 10:30 am
by Derek Hazell
Ian's right. I've just tried the skin Phil suggested, and although the page isn't miles wide anymore, the one particular post still is if you highlight it to read all the text. That of course doesn't matter though, because it's not affecting the rest of the thread.

I am stunned by how different this "ProSilver" skin is to the "AeroGreen". Absolutely everything is different. Right down to the avatars being on the right hand side instead of the left. I will keep this skin for a while to see how I get on with it, because changes always seem annoying first of all, but then you get used to them and don't notice. Anyway, on a lot of websites you don't have any choice when they decide to change the look, so you have to adapt.

It would be interesting to see how many of us are using each skin, as I hadn't thought about changing to this very different view before, but for once I cannot be bothered to do a poll on it.

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 10:38 am
by Jon Corby
ProSilver was the original skin, before Charlie inexplicably changed the default to AeroGreen. As far as I'm aware there's no actual advantages to AeroGreen, and as it was different I found it was taking me slightly longer to navigate, spot stuff I hadn't read etc so I pretty much changed back straight away.

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 11:19 am
by Richard Brittain
Ah, this reminds me of that old saying concerning this matter:

"Revlis Orpenoreh told Thaednis, 'AeroGreen's evil, lives neer gore, as in deaht. Dl other one - ProSilver.'"

(Dl = download)

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 11:46 am
by Richard Brittain
Anyway, I'd tend to disagree with Revlis. I prefer AeroGreen. Maybe that's just because I'm used to it, but it seems sleeker and more professional. Also, I don't like the way prosilver completely cuts out all of Gevin's z's. What other crucial bits of information might prosilver decide to 'cut off'?

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 11:50 am
by Jon Corby
Revlis ftw.

I shall not allow this myth to spread that AeroGreen is superior.

No, it never propagates if I set a gap or prevention.

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 11:52 am
by Phil Reynolds
Derek Hazell wrote:for once I cannot be bothered to do a poll on it.
Rise to vote, sir!

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 11:54 am
by Phil Reynolds
Richard Brittain wrote:I don't like the way prosilver completely cuts out all of Gevin's z's.
It doesn't, not in Firefox anyway. It just shows as many of them as will fit.

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 11:56 am
by Richard Brittain
Jon Corby wrote:Revlis ftw.

I shall not allow this myth to spread that AeroGreen is superior.

No, it never propagates if I set a gap or prevention.
Revlis ftw?
Wtf silver.

Anyway, I think it says a lot about you as a person, Corby, that you're in league with someone who can't even spell 'near' or 'death'.

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 11:58 am
by Richard Brittain
Phil Reynolds wrote:
Richard Brittain wrote:I don't like the way prosilver completely cuts out all of Gevin's z's.
It doesn't, not in Firefox anyway. It just shows as many of them as will fit.
Ah, well it does in Safari Web Browser.

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 1:42 pm
by Sue Sanders
Phil, I had a go at changing the skin and did manage it. And managed to change it back immediately when I didn't like it! It doesn't have the jiggly blue arrows. It had jiggly lines but they were jiggling on things I 'd read. I'm trained up on jiggly arrows and must stick to what I know. But ta anyway. I'm in Leamington today, apropos to nothing! x

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 1:59 pm
by Phil Reynolds
Sue Sanders wrote:I'm in Leamington today
It's gorgeous, isn't it?

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 2:14 pm
by Ian Volante
Interesting. The page in Firefox isn't wide.

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 4:44 pm
by JimBentley
Phil Reynolds wrote:
Richard Brittain wrote:I don't like the way prosilver completely cuts out all of Gevin's z's.
It doesn't, not in Firefox anyway. It just shows as many of them as will fit.
I think Richard meant that if there was something after the Zs (or at any point beyond the screen margin) you wouldn't be able to see it in Prosilver.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Forinstancetheremightbeanyoldshitoverheresomewhere.

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 5:24 pm
by Phil Reynolds
JimBentley wrote:
Phil Reynolds wrote:
Richard Brittain wrote:I don't like the way prosilver completely cuts out all of Gevin's z's.
It doesn't, not in Firefox anyway. It just shows as many of them as will fit.
I think Richard meant that if there was something after the Zs (or at any point beyond the screen margin) you wouldn't be able to see it in Prosilver.
Really? Oh. Well, that's not what he said, but you may well be right.
Forinstancetheremightbeanyoldshitoverheresomewhere.
Unlikely but true.

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 6:05 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Charlie Reams wrote:
Ian Volante wrote:Okay, I'll check when I get home and am using Firefox. Right now I'm at work and stuck with IE6.
Cruel and unusual punishment indeed.
I upgraded from IE6 to IE8 and am beginning to regret the move. IE6 didn't seem too bad to me.

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 6:23 pm
by Kai Laddiman
Wow, SMOOTHblue is awesome!

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 6:28 pm
by Kieran Child
How do I get smooth blue?? I hear it's awesome.

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 10:09 pm
by Matt Morrison
Jon Corby wrote:Wow, I'd forgotten how much better the font looks in IE than in Chrome though.
If you're on Windows XP, try:

Control Panel > Display > Appearance > Effects... > Use the following method to smooth the edges of screen fonts: ClearType

IE (since version 7, I believe) has ClearType built in, but the above option should improve the display of fonts in other browsers. If you're lucky.

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 11:04 am
by Jon Corby
Matt Morrison wrote:
Jon Corby wrote:Wow, I'd forgotten how much better the font looks in IE than in Chrome though.
If you're on Windows XP, try:

Control Panel > Display > Appearance > Effects... > Use the following method to smooth the edges of screen fonts: ClearType

IE (since version 7, I believe) has ClearType built in, but the above option should improve the display of fonts in other browsers. If you're lucky.
Awesome Matt, that worked perfectly. Thank you! :)

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 11:23 am
by Matt Morrison
I love it when something works.

*does a few laps while clenching fist and chanting YES*

Image (wish I could give you one with sound) (yes, I do sex silently)

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2010 11:37 pm
by Dinos Sfyris
^Bump. So I was thinking about our beautiful, symmetric friend the palindrome and how some words are almost palindromes but not quite like BANANA. It then occurred to me that all words can be expressed as a sequence of palindromes ie BANANA = B + ANANA. TINNITUS = TINNIT + U + S. SENSELESSNESSES = S + E + N + SELES + S + N + ESSE + S etc, and it would be cool to award every word a score depending on how awesome it's palindromicity is. Obviously words with long palindromic sections relative to the length of the word should be scored highly. Here is a basic scoring system I've come up with called the rotcaF Factor:

rF = (Sum of squares of lengths of palindromic sections)/(Number of palindromic sections)

eg BANANA would score (1^2 + 5^2)/2 = 13. AGAMEMNON would score (3^2 + 3^2 + 3^2)/3 = 9.

Any wholly palindromic word would simply score the square of its length ie HANNAH scores 36. ROTAVATOR scores 81.
Any null palindrome (a word with no palindromic sections of more than 1 letter) would score 1.

Somehow I think this scoring system could be put to profitable use so feel free to suggest your own favourite palindromes to cash in on this lucrative deal! I'm not sure how phrases of more than one word should be scored or even in fact if they should be allowed a score. Thoughts?

DAMMIT I'M MAD!

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2010 11:57 pm
by Charlie Reams
I think you should define the rotcaf factor for a given word to be the maximum of the possible rFs. For example, if we take the word BABBAB, this could have an rF of 9 or 36 depending on where you split it. (I can't think of any real words where this matters.)

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2010 8:28 pm
by Miriam Nussbaum
Dinos Sfyris wrote:rF = (Sum of squares of lengths of palindromic sections)/(Number of palindromic sections)

eg BANANA would score (1^2 + 5^2)/2 = 13. AGAMEMNON would score (3^2 + 3^2 + 3^2)/3 = 9.
Unless I've understood something wrong, the rF for MIRIAM would also be 9. But intuitively, I wouldn't think it should score as high as the much more palindrome-tastic AGAMEMNON.

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2010 8:33 pm
by Charlie Reams
Miriam Nussbaum wrote:
Dinos Sfyris wrote:rF = (Sum of squares of lengths of palindromic sections)/(Number of palindromic sections)

eg BANANA would score (1^2 + 5^2)/2 = 13. AGAMEMNON would score (3^2 + 3^2 + 3^2)/3 = 9.
Unless I've understood something wrong, the rF for MIRIAM would also be 9. But intuitively, I wouldn't think it should score as high as the much more palindrome-tastic AGAMEMNON.
I make it 3, with

M - IRI - A - M -> (1² + 3² + 1² + 1²) / 4 = 3

which seems reasonable.

Re: Palindromes

Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2010 10:15 pm
by Miriam Nussbaum
Oh yeah, I forgot to count the "palindromes of length 1". Makes perfect sense now.