ABSTRACT

Like the other three effects presented here, it takes advantage of packets that display some kind of palindromic symmetry. A palindrome is a word or phrase that reads the same forward as backward, i.e., when the sequence of letters is reversed. Our chapter title, hijacked from Phil Goldstein’s book Redivider [Goldstein 02], is an example, as are the single words eye, sees, pip, and the phrases I prefer pi, never odd or even, air an aria, dog as a devil deified lived as a god, and was it a car or a cat I saw?, not to mention if I had a hi fi and aibohphobia (the fear of palindromes).