From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Dec 05 08:04:22 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 05 Dec 2006 08:04:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GrcmL-0005Rm-MX for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 08:04:21 -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 1GrcmD-0005Rb-Ol for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 05 Dec 2006 08:04:21 -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 kB5G4BxD002931 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 5 Dec 2006 10:04:11 -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 kB5G3nCv008855; Tue, 5 Dec 2006 10:03:49 -0600 Received: from localhost (adam@localhost) by hive.cec.wustl.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) with ESMTP id kB5G3jI1008852; Tue, 5 Dec 2006 10:03:49 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: hive.cec.wustl.edu: adam owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 10:03:45 -0600 (CST) From: "Adam D. Lopresto" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: palindromes? In-Reply-To: <4574C0DC.5080409@phma.optus.nu> Message-ID: References: <20061204202426.43026.qmail@web81413.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <4574C0DC.5080409@phma.optus.nu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 3803 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, Pierre Abbat wrote: > Adam D. Lopresto wrote: > > 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 > > This code is substituting the last letter of the second gismu with "i", which > often produces a non-word. You're right, it's buggy. At least some of them are valid, which was enough for me. But my bad. -- Adam Lopresto http://cec.wustl.edu/~adam/ Slight disorientation after prolonged system uptime is normal for new Linux users. Please do not adjust your browser.