I almost don't want to admit I know anything about Naruto. At any rate, "I wanna rock and roll all night and party every day" seems to confuse this process.
-----Original Message----- From: math-fun-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:math-fun- bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Bill Gosper Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2013 5:26 PM To: math-fun@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: [math-fun] Fixed points of Google translate ?
Mitchell Riley>Here is a site that does English <-> Japanese until a fixed point is found. http://www.translationparty.com/ When we found the site a few years ago, my friend discovered that "Naruto" expanded forever. The step from English to Japanese would give the word both in English and Japanese, so the total length doubled each round trip. The translator isn't fooled by that any more. It looks like it's very nearly fooled by "Naruto Naruto", after a few doublings it is ended by the strange appearance of some other word.