capicúa

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Spanish

FWOTD – 5 August 2015

Etymology

Borrowed from Catalan capicua, from cap i cua (literally “head and tail”). Compare Portuguese capicua.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kapiˈkua/
  • Rhymes: -ua
  • Syllabification: ca‧pi‧cú‧a

Noun

capicúa m (plural capicúas)

  1. palindromic number
    • 1995, Fernando Corbalán Yuste, La matemática aplicada a la vida cotidiana, Grao, →ISBN, page 68:
      En efecto, si tenemos un capicúa con un número par de cifras (como 235532, que tiene seis), para obtener otro capicúa mayor basta con escribir en medio de número (es decir, después del grupo de cifras que se repite a continuación en ...
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