[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tim Churches wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ObPuzzle: how did I "damage" the image?
You created a mirror image.
Damn. Too easy.
There is another explanation for the rapidity with which your brain
teaser was solved, but modesty prevents me from mentioning it.
The system can be made resistant to that problem by only allowing
palindromic messages to be encoded, such as "Madam I am Adam.", 'Able was I ere I saw Elba." and "Named under a ban, a bared nude man."
Why couldn't they simply encode your input as a palindrome?
Input: Mary had an aeroplane
Encoding: Mary has an aeroplaneenalporea na dah yraM
I should have been more precise and said "natural language palindrome",
the rules for which promulgated by Martin Gardiner of Scientific
American fame are that capitalisation, whitespace and punctuation are
ignored and that each word must be a recognised word or commonly used
proper noun in the target language (and it must read the same forwards
and backwards).
I wonder, do ideographic languages have palindromes?
No doubt it is patented to death by Xerox.
Has that ever stopped anybody?
Ask the Xerox legal department.
Tim C
--
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
