master_q 0 Posted September 28, 2003 This is actually something that I typed out a while ago which was going to be an edition for Star Trek & Physics Weekly. (I'm just going to show a portion of it. Hopefully a few will find it interesting) Edition 60: The Language of the Universe IV: Palindromics [. . .] ~~PALINDROMES~~ Palindrome: Is a #, word, poem, / sentence that when you read it forward and backwards it is the same It comes from the Greek word "running back again" **Examples** "101" read backwards as "101" so it's a palindromic #! "MOM" reads backwards as "MOM" One good example of a palindrome is one that was crated by Jon Agee: "GO HANG A SALAMI! I’M A LASAGNA HOG" Look at the first letter and the last then the second one and the second to last. As you can see it is in fact a palindrome Palindromic # Conjecture *1) Pick a # 213 *2) Write the # backwards 312 *3) Add the 2 #s 213 + 312 = 525 And now in this case we have a palindrome! *4) If you don't get a palindrome then use the # you have and go to step 2 and go through the process until you have a palindromic # Palindromic Constant: (Rivera) about 3.369 Palindrome #s has a constant when you add there reciprocals (tested using all palindromic #s < 10^7 +1 ) Some #s don't work with the Palindromic # Conjecture All the #s from 1 to 100,000 there are 5,996 #s that don't work [...] Master Q StarTrek_Master_Q@yahoo.com Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ensign_beedrill 0 Posted September 29, 2003 That's interesting. I've never heard the "lasagna hog" palindrome. That's nifty. This is one of my favorites: Slap a ham on Omaha, pals! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
