World’s Longest Palindrome
December 22, 2005 | 4 Comments
Damn Interesting had a great article about The World’s Longest Palindrome. I figure this is a prime candidate for my World’s Big and Tall Series.
Peter Norvig is the person claiming to have created the world’s longest palindrome at 17,259 words. The palindrome is pretty much nonsense and based off an unimpressive dictionary. While I’m throwing out the critocisms, his algorithm also uses Python, which I think could definitely be improved on.
Damn Interesting also says:
Single-word palindromes are equally interesting. Finnish has the longest single-word palindromes, with two entries: “saippuakivikauppias,� which means “soap stone dealer�; and “solutomaattimittaamotulos,� which means “the result from a measurement laboratory for tomatoes.�
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