2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/119294A recursively palindromic (RP) word is one that is a palindrome and whose left half-word and right half-word are each RP. Thus ABACABA is, and MADAM is not, an RP word. We count RP words of given length over a finite alphabet and RP compositions of an integer. We use the same method to determine the parity of the Catalan numbers.Combinatorics05A15text