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Peter Norvig - World's Longest Palindrome Sentence?
- albertsun 16y agoOnly a sentence in very rough terms as he's just stringing together an arbitrarily large number of noun phrases. The palindromes are of the form: S -> "A man", "a plan", (NP,)* "a canal, Panama!" which I suppose you could call a sentence.
- momotomo 16y agoIndeed. It's a fun exercise in coding but the output is very "monkey at typewriter not producing Shakespeare".
- jpeterson 16y agoDoesn't he have bigger things to worry about, like staying ahead of Bing search quality, for one?
- tokenadult 16y agoHe needs to upgrade his website (which has great content). Right now the article is not appearing for me, so maybe HN has the power of slashdotting now.
- angrycoder 16y agoSometimes programmers do things just for fun. Its helps stave off the urge to bludgeon themselves to death with their own keyboard.
- percept 16y agoNot loading for me. You guys know the Weird Al song, right? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nej4xJe4Tdg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nej4xJe4Tdg
- Groxx 16y agoWay more awesome. And I did not. Many thanks for the link!
- gaelian 16y agoGoogle cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:7e4IeWgkyioJ:norvig.com/palindrome.html+http://norvig.com/palindrome.html&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&client=firefox-a http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:7e4IeWg...
- nakkiel 16y agoThat's AFAIK the longest human-made palindrome but I'm sure there must be longer ones: http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=830538 http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=830538 I'd be glad to find longer ones!