The name of one of the Indian languages "malayalam" is a palindrome, though not visually symmetric.
Visually symmetric words
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Re: Visually symmetric words
#22poq
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qop
How about rotational symmetry?
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#23The name of one of the Indian languages "malayalam" is a palindrome, though not visually symmetric.
According to the rules in TFA, this is indeed “visually symmetrical”
Edit: in uppercase only, I suppose
Re: Visually symmetric words
#24The name of one of the Indian languages "malayalam" is a palindrome, though not visually symmetric.
According to the rules in TFA, this is indeed “visually symmetrical” Edit: in uppercase only, I suppose
> According to the rules in TFA, this is indeed “visually symmetrical”
Only if you ignore case and mix uppercase A and lowercase l.
> Edit: in uppercase only, I suppose
Not even. Uppercase L is not a symmetric character.
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#25Probably the most low-effort blog post I've read in a while
Seems like there isn't much material to expand upon "()()" versus "())(". I prefer this other article about palindromes: Was It A Cat I Saw? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33285198
I had to work harder than expected to get this. I interpret the cartoon as distinguishing between meaning and form. Until I read it aloud, I couldn't stop interpreting the strings as
open close open close
in both directions.
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#26"racecar" is a palindrome that you cannot unsee.
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#27poq bod dob qop How about rotational symmetry? qp db pq bd
Famously the Sun Microsystems logo had rotational symmetry! (While reading "sun")
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#28Treating 'u' and 'n' as symmetric is a bit cheating. Luckily, they are also rotationally symmetric words, like 'snus' and 'pod'.
Interesting choice of ‘snus’ as the example, rather than ‘suns’
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#29I once made a little puzzle that involves this idea: https://hcs64.itch.io/fitting-words