Problem 551. Have you seen any Spindromes recently?

Created by AMITAVA BISWAS

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Never been to the dwarf planet makemake yet?
Assume a new unexplored planet has several moons spinning around it,
all on a flat circular orbit and equally spaced,
and represented by a sequence of letters such as 'm a k e m a k e'
or simply 'makemake'.
Another example of a sequence of spinning moons could be '0 3 4 6 4 9'
or simply '034649'.
Notice that some moons may have same names.
Assuming that such a sequence could also be called a spindrome if the spinning moons of same names can be distinguishable from each other by the neighbors.
Otherwise that sequence is not a spindrome.
The sequence 'makemake' is not a spindrome.
The sequence '034649' is a spindrome.
Please detect if the given sequence is a spindrome.

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Venu Lolla on 2 Apr 2012

@Amitava: I think test cases 4 and 6 are incorrect. Could you please verify the same?

Venu Lolla on 3 Apr 2012

@Amitava: please ignore my previous comment. Cheers.

AMITAVA BISWAS on 3 Apr 2012

Cheers

Richard Zapor on 1 Jun 2012

Neighbors are more than adjacents. The first and last elements are considered adjacent. Thus [ABAABA] is not a spindrome as it becomes ...AABAABAA...
However [ABA] is a spindrome even though it also becomes ...AABAABAA...

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