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How many palindromes can you find in this photo?
This photo was taken on the shoulder of the southbound Highway 30 in Highland or Redlands, California. (I don't know exactly where the city limits are.) There is another palindromic odometer here. I think this photo came out better than the first one I tried.
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Update: This image was used to accompany the article, Would a Mileage Tax Punish Green Drivers?, by Josh Loposer, on February 20, 2009.
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There is an article in the journal Nature about multiple palindromes: Abundant gene conversion between arms of palindromes in human and ape Y chromosomes. I have absolutely no idea what the authors are talking about.
Here is something interesting you can do by squaring numbers consisting only of the digits "1" (the products are all palindromes):
1 x 1 = 1
11 x 11 = 121
111 x 111 = 12321
1111 x 1111 = 1234321
11111 x 11111 = 123454321
111111 x 111111 = 12345654321
1111111 x 1111111 = 1234567654321
11111111 x 11111111 = 123456787654321
111111111 x 111111111 = 12345678987654321
The only palindromic year in the 21st century was 2002. If you type 2002 into a calculator and turn it upside-down, it will still read 2002.
A palindromic prime is a number that is simultaneously palindromic and prime. The first 17 (a base-10 prime number) base-10 palindromic primes are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 101, 131, 151, 181, 191, 313, 353, 373, 383, 727, 757, and 787.
10^150006 + 7426247 x 10^75000 + 1 is a 150007-digit palindromic prime.
In the April 1984 Scientific American "Computer Recreations" column, an article appeared about mathematical patterns (F. Gruenberger, Computer Recreations, "How to Handle Numbers with Thousands of Digits, and Why One Might Want To.", Scientific American, 250 [No. 4, April, 1984], 19-26.). Here's the algorithm:
1. Pick a number.
2. Reverse its digits and add this value to the original number.
3. If this is not a palindrome, go back to step 2 and repeat.
Do all numbers eventually become palindromes by this process? It was suggested that this is the case.
Most numbers become palindromes fairly quickly, in only a couple of steps:
13
1. 13 + 31 = 44
64
1. 64 + 46 = 110
2. 110 + 011 = 121
87
1. 87 + 78 = 165
2. 165 + 561 = 726
3. 726 + 627 = 1353
4. 1353 + 3531 = 4884
In fact, about 80% of all numbers under 10,000 solve in 4 or less steps. About 90% solve in 7 steps or less. A rare case, number 89, takes 24 iterations to become a palindrome. It takes the most steps of any number under 10,000 that has been resolved into a palindrome.
Does every number eventually become a palindrome? Nobody knows for sure, since it has never been proven. There are some numbers that do not appear to ever form a palindrome. The first one is 196. Such numbers are called Lychrels. The search to resolve this number has been referred to as the 196 Algorithm or the 196 Problem, but normally called the 196 Palindrome Quest.
The 20-digit number 10,200,000,000,065,287,900 solves after 257 iterations.
(The information starting with the paragraph about the April 1984 Scientific American issue and continuing to here is from a fascinating web page about the 196 Palindrome Quest.)
Not that it has a relation to the 196 Palidrome Quest, the 196th numerical palindrome is 9779.
I found a web site devoted to the 196 Palindrome Quest: http://www.p196.org/.
My favorite alphabetic palindrome is the sentence, "Do geese see God?" Most sentences like this don't make much sense.
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The palindromic 08! 08880 reads the same backwards, forward or upside down. It's seen here at Tinsley TMD - 10/10/1991.
© 2014 - 53A Models of Hull Collection. Scanned from the original 35mm colour negative; photographed by John Turner.
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KING OF WR 12952 Mumbai Rajdhani Climbing a small incline at Pragati Maidan after skipping Tilak Bridge[TKJ] towards NZM with GZB ABB WAP5#30003 [PALINDROME]...
Class 50 diesel-electric No. 50005 Collingwood heads the 13:40 Paddington - Penzance past Hele and Bradninch on 11th July 1985.
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Captured: 13/12/2016 11:41:08
Camera: NIKON D750 (NIKON CORPORATION)
Lens: 24.0-105.0 mm f/4.0
Focal Length: 105 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Aperture: f/9
Shutter Speed: 1/1000 sec
Captured: 10/12/2016 15:11:34
Camera: NIKON D750 (NIKON CORPORATION)
Lens: 24.0-105.0 mm f/4.0
Focal Length: 62 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Aperture: f/8
Shutter Speed: 1/320 sec
Navan –a palindrome.
The Hundred of Gilbert was declared in 1851 and John Hallett and Joseph Stirling bought several sections of land here in 1853 and named the locality after Navan in County Meath Ireland. This was excellent land in the Gilbert River Valley with the river flowing through their sections. They tried to establish a private town with 126 blocks. It grew slowly with a Post Office, a blacksmith, bootmaker, a Catholic school with 47 pupils and a Catholic church. The church was probably built in the late 1850s and a school existed in Navan by 1858 with 39 pupils. A general store opened in 1861 but it did not fare well and was up for sale in 1862. It reopened as Gluyas’ general store and was still operating with that owner who had the Post Office as well until he retired in 1875. He was still trying to sell it two years later. By then Navan was declining as the big town of Riverton with 5 stores overshadowed Navan. The arrival of the railway in Riverton in 1869 was probably instrumental in the demise of Navan which never got a siding although the railway was close to the town site. The cemetery was started in the mid-1850s with the earliest grave dated 1858. The Catholic Church was not well built and started to collapse in 1872 but was still in use until it was demolished in 1876, never to replaced. Although the Sisters of St Joseph used to walk to the Navan Catholic School from Tarlee beginning in 1864, the opening of the Catholic school reduced enrolments in the Navan licensed private school. The Navan Catholic School closed in 1871. Navan became a government school in 1878 and was closed in 1887 when a new school was built at Giles Corner known as the Merrindie School. The tiny town declined further and evidence of this is the selling of 77 town lots in 1874. They presumably went to local farmers to enlarge their paddocks. Nothing remains of Navan today. The charming mortuary chapel in the cemetery was built from the 18th March 1900 when the foundation stone was laid and blessed. It was built in memory of John O’Brien who is buried there as he had contributed £100 towards its construction. It was to be used for Masses on the first Sunday of the month and for services for some funerals. The Catholic Bishop sent an assistant to bless the foundation stone. There is a good sprinkling of Irish names in Navan cemetery as the district was named after Navan in Ireland. Names include: Brennan, Buckley, Burrows, Callery, Connell, Glynn, Hahasey, Hogan, Keelan, Kenny, McCarthy, McEvoy, McGahan, McInernery, O’Dea, Shannon etc. The roads of Navan township were returned to broad acre properties by the government in 1942.
Palindromic numbered VTA WDM-3D 11211 entering Mahesana junction with 14806 Barmer - Yesvantapur AC Express....
Apollinaire's take on the palindrome, part of "Coeur Couronne et Miroir" from "Caligrammes", which I would translate, rather roughly, as "In this mirror I am enclosed, alive and real, as one imagines the angels and not like the reflections (in this mirror...)"
A palindrome is a word, phrase, number, or other sequence of characters which reads the same backward or forward. Allowances may be made for adjustments to capital letters, punctuation, and word dividers.
Navan –a palindrome.
The Hundred of Gilbert was declared in 1851 and John Hallett and Joseph Stirling bought several sections of land here in 1853 and named the locality after Navan in County Meath Ireland. This was excellent land in the Gilbert River Valley with the river flowing through their sections. They tried to establish a private town with 126 blocks. It grew slowly with a Post Office, a blacksmith, bootmaker, a Catholic school with 47 pupils and a Catholic church. The church was probably built in the late 1850s and a school existed in Navan by 1858 with 39 pupils. A general store opened in 1861 but it did not fare well and was up for sale in 1862. It reopened as Gluyas’ general store and was still operating with that owner who had the Post Office as well until he retired in 1875. He was still trying to sell it two years later. By then Navan was declining as the big town of Riverton with 5 stores overshadowed Navan. The arrival of the railway in Riverton in 1869 was probably instrumental in the demise of Navan which never got a siding although the railway was close to the town site. The cemetery was started in the mid-1850s with the earliest grave dated 1858. The Catholic Church was not well built and started to collapse in 1872 but was still in use until it was demolished in 1876, never to replaced. Although the Sisters of St Joseph used to walk to the Navan Catholic School from Tarlee beginning in 1864, the opening of the Catholic school reduced enrolments in the Navan licensed private school. The Navan Catholic School closed in 1871. Navan became a government school in 1878 and was closed in 1887 when a new school was built at Giles Corner known as the Merrindie School. The tiny town declined further and evidence of this is the selling of 77 town lots in 1874. They presumably went to local farmers to enlarge their paddocks. Nothing remains of Navan today. The charming mortuary chapel in the cemetery was built from the 18th March 1900 when the foundation stone was laid and blessed. It was built in memory of John O’Brien who is buried there as he had contributed £100 towards its construction. It was to be used for Masses on the first Sunday of the month and for services for some funerals. The Catholic Bishop sent an assistant to bless the foundation stone. There is a good sprinkling of Irish names in Navan cemetery as the district was named after Navan in Ireland. Names include: Brennan, Buckley, Burrows, Callery, Connell, Glynn, Hahasey, Hogan, Keelan, Kenny, McCarthy, McEvoy, McGahan, McInernery, O’Dea, Shannon etc. The roads of Navan township were returned to broad acre properties by the government in 1942.
Clean coaches and a shabby Alco : Palindrome 12221 Pune Howrah AC Duronto Express speeding past a LC gate with a shabby PUNE WDM-3A#17854. One of the few LHB coach train without any mismatch rakes in it.
Captured: 10/12/2016 14:43:47
Camera: NIKON D750 (NIKON CORPORATION)
Lens: 24.0-105.0 mm f/4.0
Focal Length: 82 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Aperture: f/8
Shutter Speed: 1/800 sec
burgundy corduroy blazer- vintage
cotton top- marc by marc jacobs
periwinkle pleat skirt- thrifted vintage
black nylon tights- drugstore
platform ankle boots- farylrobin
jewels-various sources
For FGR - "Presents" and "Favorite Word"
I don't really have a favorite word - but I am a huge fan of word-play. Palindromes are my favorite. Gracie is the worst/best dog I have ever owned. Truly her own dichotomy. It's fitting that her nickname "Evil dog" is "God Live" backwards. I'm not a religious person - but she is certainly a gift from somewhere...
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வானில் போகும் மேகம் இங்கே யாரைத் தேடுதோ!
The filename was as palindrome as the image ! so :)
Kothanda Ramar temple, Dhanushkodi, Tamilnadu , India 2019
I decided to cut more Cretaceous New Jersey amber again. Beautiful clear golden dinosaur aged amber. It is pretty stable and no need water to protect just clean polished the transparent yellow type. My transparent reddish NJ amber showed the crazing effect. Opaque NJ amber must kept under dampcotton to prevent further decomposition.
42/365 (11.02.2011 - palindromic date!)
made from 4 paper strips (actually I used 8, because it's impossible to make it from 4, they cross itself), based on Heinz Strobl's knotology
What if reflections of the sun had been all you had ever seen of it? What if you had lived underground your whole life?
Sometimes I get so frustrated with my inability to articulate spiritual things. I don't comprehend the spiritual world well myself and then to try to tell someone who knows even less of it than I do is like someone who's only seen a reflection of the sun describing it to someone who has always lived in a cave. It's a good thing I'm not responsible to save anyone.
"For now we are looking in a mirror that gives only a blurred reflection of reality, but when perfection comes we shall see truly and face to face! Now I know in part (imperfectly), but then I shall know and understand fully and clearly, even in the same manner as I have been fully and clearly known and understood by God." I Corinthians 13:12
The last four images that I have from our wedding four years ago. I still swoon a little when I think about that day: so many friends and family, a forest, delicious food, donuts, dahlias and other gorgeous flowers, dancing until after midnight (and ending the dancing on a high note with Led Zeppelin)... the list goes on and on.
Yesterday was not only our anniversary... my new niece was born, AND it was a palindrome date!
Image made with my Nikon F100.
While waiting on another train, I happened upon this lucky find. NS 21E came into Latrobe with an SD40E leader, unit 6336, to be precise.
"He opens and no man can shut it. He closes and no man can open it."
I feel like I'm surrounded by closed doors sometimes. It's exciting to be near so many opportunities but it's so disappointing to find so many of them shut to me. I must be at the wrong door. If I could just find the right one.
I ended up looking at this galaxy because of a discussion on palindromic prime numbers, which 383 happens to be. Anyway, this is just the central disc of the galaxy. The whole galaxy is much larger, looking like a smooth, bright elliptical galaxy. What's much more interesting about this galaxy is something that I wasn't able to include because I couldn't find the data. Or, maybe it is more appropriate to say that the NRAO archive confused me. If I ever get the data I'll post a new version with the radio jets. They're really something.
I used a combination ACS/HRC F606W polarized light images for the luminosity for this and generated colors from the following data:
Red: hst_06673_09_wfpc2_f814w_pc_sci
Green: hst_05476_0j_wfpc2_f702w_pc_sci
Blue: hst_06673_09_wfpc2_fr680n_wf_sci
North is up.