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THE LONGEST PALINDROME
THE LONGEST LIST OF THE LONGEST
STUFF AT THE LONGEST DOMAIN NAME AT LONG LAST
So what was the longest palindrome in the world?
To help figure this one out, here is the definition from dictionary.com:
pal·in·drome n.
- A word, phrase, verse, or sentence
that reads the same backward or forward. For example: A man, a plan, a
canal, Panama!
- A segment of double-stranded DNA in
which the nucleotide sequence of one strand reads in reverse order to that of
the complementary strand.
| Non-English: |
saippuakuppinippukauppias |
| # of letters: |
25 |
| Meaning: |
Finnish - 'soap cup dealer' |
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English: |
tattarrattat |
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# of letters: |
12 |
| Meaning: |
rat-a-tat |
Notes:
Tattarrattat was invented by
James Joyce and used in 'Ulysses', It does, however appear in the Oxford
Dictionary.
More notes: Many think 'Able was I ere I
saw Elba' is the longest palindrome, maybe the longest that makes sense, but as
proven below, they can be infinite. Generally the longer the palindrome, the
less sense it makes
Yet more notes: A computer programmer,
Peter Norvig, with the help of his computer, created a palindrome 17,256 words
long. You can see it here:
http://www.norvig.com/pal2txt.html
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