Palindrome revisited

Last year sometime during March while reviewing my blog readership, I found the total pageviews of my blog was a magical number 16661, which reads exactly the same forward or in the reverse! English, the language with the largest vocabulary, denotes such amazingly symmetric word formations and numbers as palindrome. The first palindrome that I learnt during school days was the word “malayalam" it reads exactly the same even when spelt backwards. Other examples are Anna, Radar, Rotor etc. These learning experiences took shape of a blogpost titled Palindrome posted on March 20th, 2013.
Snapshot of the blog titled Musings of an Islander, as on 21/04/2014

Those who missed my earlier post on this let me introduce the term as available in Wikipedia, which defines palindrome as a word, phrase, number, or other sequence of symbols or elements, whose meaning may be interpreted the same way in either forward or reverse direction. The word was coined in the 17th century from the Greek roots palin (πάλιν; "again") and dromos (δρóμος; "way, direction"). The Greek phrase to describe the phenomenon is karkinikê epigrafê (καρκινικὴ  επιγραφή; "crab inscription", or simply karkinoi (καρκίνοι; "crabs"), alluding to the movement of crabs, such as an inscription that may be read backwards.

Coming back to my blog, I have been monitoring the pageview every now and then since the day a palindrome was spotted in my blog’s pageview. Today the lady luck smiled again. The pageview of my blog reads 39793; Hurrah! It’s another palindrome. The joy amplified when I found that today’s pageview (39793) minus last years pageview (16661) is 23132, Yahoo! It is another palindrome!

Amazing isn’t it!

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