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| | World's Longest Palindrome? 15,139 (no, 17,259) words |
 | | And in fact, in a few hours I was able to write a program to create a palindrome with 63,647 letters (and later I updated the program and got 72,046 letters). |
 | | I had it print a message every time it finds a palindrome that is 200 words longer than the last one, and it consistently prints this message every second; so in 3 or 4 seconds it breaks Hoey's record, and in 30 seconds it is over 6000 words. |
 | | For example, there are 426 words that contain "eq" or "sq", but these are hard to use in a palindrome because there are no words containing "qe" or "qs", and only a few words that end in "q" (and could then be followed by a word starting with "e" or "se". |
| www.norvig.com /palindrome.html (1205 words) |
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