Todd Solondz

A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it folds in on itself so that the beginning and end mirror each other, that they are the same.

American Writer

Pay attention to each letter's place. Mismatches break palindrome property.

Spelling Focus

Palindromes ignore capitalization but maintaining the same case is stylistically better.

Case Sensitivity

Ignore spaces, punctuation, and symbols when identifying palindromes.

Punctuation Irrelevant

In math and physics, a palindrome shows visual or structural symmetry.

Visual Symmetry

Understand that palindromic patterns represent balance and can have special properties.

Conceptual Understanding

Think of each side of the palindrome as reflections in a mirror.

Mirror Image

Palindrome DNA structures are important in genetic engineering and biological research.

Biological Relevance

DNA palindromes are about nucleotide order, creating symmetrical molecular structures.

Molecular Symmetry

 Hedge can count the letters in each stack and organize them into a dictionary, which is a tidy way of storing information. A loop could then go through and count how many times odd numbers appear. If there are less than 2 odd characters, the stack can be made into a palindrome.

The Chasm PIPE Think Like A...

 I said no. What would they know? To explain why I have chosen to ignore what is clearly very good advice, I want to take you back to the beginning of this talk, specifically, my palindrome joke.