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Peter Norvig - World's Longest Palindrome Sentence? (norvig.com)
27 points by paran 5697 days ago
5 comments
albertsun 5696 days ago
Only a sentence in very rough terms as he's just stringing together an arbitrarily large number of noun phrases. The palindromes are of the form:

S -> "A man", "a plan", (NP,)* "a canal, Panama!"

which I suppose you could call a sentence.

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momotomo 5696 days ago
Indeed. It's a fun exercise in coding but the output is very "monkey at typewriter not producing Shakespeare".
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percept 5696 days ago
Not loading for me.

You guys know the Weird Al song, right?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nej4xJe4Tdg

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Groxx 5696 days ago
Way more awesome. And I did not. Many thanks for the link!
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gaelian 5696 days ago
Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:7e4IeWg...
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nakkiel 5696 days ago
That's AFAIK the longest human-made palindrome but I'm sure there must be longer ones:

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=830538

I'd be glad to find longer ones!

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jpeterson 5696 days ago
Doesn't he have bigger things to worry about, like staying ahead of Bing search quality, for one?
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angrycoder 5696 days ago
Sometimes programmers do things just for fun. Its helps stave off the urge to bludgeon themselves to death with their own keyboard.
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tokenadult 5696 days ago
He needs to upgrade his website (which has great content). Right now the article is not appearing for me, so maybe HN has the power of slashdotting now.
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