My experiences: The largest palindrome 17,259 words

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Wednesday, May 04, 2005

The largest palindrome 17,259 words

A palindrome is a word, phrase, number or any other sequence of units which has the property of reading the same in either direction.

Latin palindrome

The above Latin palindrome is remarkable for the fact that it reproduces itself also if one forms a word from the first letters, then the second letters and so forth. Hence it can also be arranged into a square which can be read either horizontally or vertically.
Aibohphobia, the fear of palindromes (not necessarily recognized as a real word), is itself a palindrome.
Peter Norvig Director of Search Quality Norvin Google has contructed the world's largest palindrome of 17,259 words

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