Re: Earliest published ambigram?
Richard Heathfield wrote: > don...@hotmail.com said: > > > Is there any practical use for an ambigram? > > By a curious coincidence, I came across an ambigram in a frozen lake a > couple of days ago. My son spotted a small brown cylindrical object frozen > into the ice, and identified it as a bottletop. Curious to know whether the > bottle was still attached(!), he asked me to retrieve the top. It wasn't > easy, but I managed it. No, no bottle, but there was a consolation prize. > The logo on the bottle-top read VISTA - and this was ambigrammed so that it > read the same if you turned the top around by 180 degrees. > > So - yes, there's a "practical" use: marketing! > > -- > Richard Heathfield > "Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29/7/1999 > http://www.cpax.org.uk > email: rjh at above domain (but drop the www, obviously) ****************** Ok, hadn't thought of that. Sometimes I think of all the highly abstract mathematics invented/discovered, and how if possibly all of it has a practical use in a sufficiently advanced technology. Which would be a technology advanced beyond anything we could imagine at this point. Don
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