Re: [OT] 4 surprises

From: Gerhard Thimm (gthimm@zbw.ch)
Date: Tue Mar 14 2000 - 21:05:33 CET


Renato schrieb:
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> On 14/03/00 at 15:08 Michele Andreoli wrote:
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> >> Further, I couldn't 'halt' the system correctly (segmentation fault) ...
> >> and, after switching power off/on and rebooting, mulinux showed
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> >> mulinux login: root
> >> ile rev.2.0.1
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> >> S A T O R
> >> A R E P O
> >> T E N E T
> >> O P E R A
> >> R O T A S
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> >This sentence is easy to explains: Sator Arepo Tenet Opera Rotas;
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I remember, this is a so called palindrom.
Letters, words or sentence that reverse are valid, like: "anna" or "eva
ave".
The longest palindrom I know in german is: "EIN NEGER MIT GAZELLE ZAGT
IM REGEN NIE". Of course, impossible to translate to be a palindrom. But
perhaps there are some in english?

Does anyone knows the name of a "square-palindrom", like this above?

At this point I would like to know the meaning of this latin sentence.
(What ever said in latin sounds profound! I'm anxious.)

Ave, Gerhard

PS: Perhaps we should develope a mulinux-palindrom :-)

> >you can read the same sentence along the rows and along the columns.
> >
> And also from end to beginning along rows or columns
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