From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Dec 04 13:21:35 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 04 Dec 2006 13:21:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GrLFn-0003KG-FI for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Mon, 04 Dec 2006 13:21:35 -0800 Received: from express.cec.wustl.edu ([128.252.21.16]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GrLFe-0003Jt-28 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Mon, 04 Dec 2006 13:21:35 -0800 Received: from hive.cec.wustl.edu (hive.cec.wustl.edu [128.252.21.14]) by express.cec.wustl.edu (8.13.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id kB4LLLHn002685 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 4 Dec 2006 15:21:21 -0600 (CST) Received: from hive.cec.wustl.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by hive.cec.wustl.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id kB4LL0us026729; Mon, 4 Dec 2006 15:21:00 -0600 Received: from localhost (adam@localhost) by hive.cec.wustl.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) with ESMTP id kB4LL0iT026726; Mon, 4 Dec 2006 15:21:00 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: hive.cec.wustl.edu: adam owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 15:21:00 -0600 (CST) From: "Adam D. Lopresto" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: palindromes? In-Reply-To: <20061204202426.43026.qmail@web81413.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: References: <20061204202426.43026.qmail@web81413.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 3790 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: adam@pubcrawler.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Gene Mosley wrote: > Does anyone know if any Lojban palindromes exist? > > Are they even possible? They're definitely possible. Someone on irc mentioned that {.ua vibjbi vau} dates from really early on. I'm attaching a bunch more, along with the perl script that found them. I'm sure others can create more sophisticated ones, but this should do for an existence proof. perl -nle '($a = $_) =~ s/.$//; print ".i $_ ".(reverse $a)."i" if $A{reverse $a}; $A{$a}++' gismu .i cutci ctuci .i dirba bridi .i dirce cridi .i gradu dargi .i jdice cidji .i kargu graki .i ketco cteki .i krici cirki .i litce ctili .i midju jdimi .i nalci clani .i namcu cmani .i nanca cnani .i narge grani .i nitcu ctini .i nivji jvini .i pulce clupi .i ratcu ctari .i sakci ckasi .i since cnisi .i skami maksi .i skari raksi .i skicu ciksi .i slaka kalsi .i slami malsi .i snada dansi .i snipa pinsi .i sruma mursi .i stici citsi .i tarbi brati .i tcadu dacti .i tcini nicti .i terpa preti .i tinci cniti .i tirse sriti .i trati tarti .i troci corti .i tsali lasti .i tsapi pasti .i xlali lalxi .i xriso sirxi .i zutse stuzi -- Adam Lopresto http://cec.wustl.edu/~adam/ "Oh, drat these computers. They're so naughty and so complex, I could pinch them." --Marvin the Martian