• @[email protected]
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      411 months ago

      A word, number or string that can be read the same backwards and forwards. Like 2112, 11/11/11, “A Toyotas a Toyota”, “Was it a cat I saw?”.

  • 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮
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    11 months ago

    Let us substitute: ( - x, ) - y
    Thus ()() becomes xyxy
    ())( becomes xyyx
    Now clearly it can be seen, even while high, that the second one is and the first isn’t

  • JokeDeity
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    411 months ago

    Okay, but yes it is if you aren’t being extremely technical and pedantic.

  • @[email protected]
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    2711 months ago

    for those too lazy to google,
    palindrome /păl′ĭn-drōm″/ noun A word, verse, or sentence, that is the same when read backward or forward. “madam; Hannah; or Lewd did I live, & evil I did dwel.”

    () () backwards is )( )(
    () )( backwards is () )(

  • @[email protected]
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    311 months ago

    This is especially terrible when lying in bed. With a keyboard or pen and paper you can make sense of it, it hurts my brain a bit to visualize it though.

  • @[email protected]
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    211 months ago

    It’s curious, but in my mind these types of mathematical or logical visualizations are the sheep I count, trying to sense the deeper flow and patterns where the emergent oddities even out.

    That’s when I know I will soon fall fast asleep, when my mind starts getting abstract.

  • bruhduh
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    1911 months ago

    What about ⊂⁠(⁠(⁠・⁠▽⁠・⁠)⁠)⁠⊃

  • palordrolap
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    911 months ago

    Yes it does bother me a little that the letters in the latter half of my username can’t be written backwards. (Well, some can, and the p can become a q, but then it’s not a p any more.)