Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 04 Dec 2006 16:45:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GrOQn-0000CB-Qi for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Mon, 04 Dec 2006 16:45:09 -0800 Received: from phma.optus.nu ([166.82.175.165] helo=ixazon.dynip.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GrOQk-0000Be-0G for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Mon, 04 Dec 2006 16:45:09 -0800 Received: from [192.168.7.3] (unknown [192.168.7.3]) by ixazon.dynip.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE601CE841 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2006 19:44:52 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4574C0DC.5080409@phma.optus.nu> Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 19:44:12 -0500 From: Pierre Abbat User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Windows/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: palindromes? References: <20061204202426.43026.qmail@web81413.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -2.2 (--) X-archive-position: 3794 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 748 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. phma