“Never odd or even” – more palindromes!

OK, this blog will get off palindromes shortly and back to more strictly mathematical topics…

But in the meantime, since it’s still today (today being 01-02-2010), and since palindromes are surely on the mathematical side of literature, we’ll stay with the subject a bit longer.

We found the fun-with-words website has an excellent store of palindromes.  Stand-out ones for mathematicians include:

Never odd or even

Sums are not set as a test on Erasmus

Some men interpret nine memos

And for the philosophically inclined, this has got to be a favourite:

Dogma: I am God

 

You can also find an entire poem written as a palindrome, “Doppelgaenger“, as well as a whole page devoted to the Panama palindrome:

A man, a plan, a cat, a ham, a yak, a yam, a hat, a canal – Panama!

Has anyone noticed the palindrome in today’s date? 01-02-2010…

A neat little palindrome in todays’ date!  Expect more palindromes in February next year and 2012.  That will be our lot, though – nothing doing in 2013.

Ewan McIntosh’s blog got us thinking about palindromes.  He picked up a very striking & original palindrome from YouTube.  We realise now it’s been doing the rounds for a year or two already.  If you haven’t seen it yet, it’s very clever, worth watching, and might even be usable in the classroom: