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// Program to create mnemonic words for numbers.
// Giordano system mapping, which is bad.
// 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
// Giordano system
//letterMap = ["M", "N", "T H Z", "B", "W V K", "F R", "J P X", "S D", "G Q L", "C"]
// Alan's quick-and-dirty system:
// letterMap = ["N", "T", "H", "S", "R", "D V", "C Y K", "L P", "M G B", "F W X J Q Z"]
// Steve Clymer's system:
letterMap = ["R", "T", "N", "L", "S Z", "H Y", "D G J", "P B F", "M W V", "C K Q X"]
letterToNumberMap = invertMap[letterMap]
words = new dict
words@10000=1
println["<TABLE BORDER=0>"]
// Read in nouns and verbs from the "parts of speech" data file.
// The wordlist files are part of the Moby wordlist project, available at:
// http://icon.shef.ac.uk/Moby/
for line = lines["file:///home/eliasen/prog/mobydict/mpos/partsofspeechUTF-8.txt", "UTF-8"]
if [word] = line =~ %r/^([a-z\-\s]*)\|.*[NVitph]/
{
num = ""
// Turn word into just its consonants.
for letter = chars[uc[word]]
{
c = char[letter]
if letterToNumberMap@c != undef
num = num + letterToNumberMap@c
}
if length[num] >= 3 and length[num] <= 4
{
println["<TR><TD>$word<TD>$num"]
if words@num
words@num.push[word]
else
words@num=[word]
}
}
println["</TABLE>"]
count3 = 0
println["<TABLE BORDER=0>"]
for i = 0 to 999
{
pad = right["00" + i, 3] // Pad the number with zeroes.
if words.containsKey[pad]
{
println["<TR><TD>$pad<TD>" + join[", ", words@pad]]
count3 = count3 + 1
} else
println["<TR><TD>$pad<TD>"]
}
count4 = 0
for i = 0 to 9999
{
pad = right["000" + i, 4] // Pad the number with zeroes.
if words.containsKey[pad]
{
println["<TR><TD>$pad<TD>" + join[", ", words@pad]]
count4 = count4 + 1
} else
println["<TR><TD>$pad<TD>"]
}
println["</TABLE>"]
println["3-Letter words covered: " + count3 + "\t(" + format[count3/1000, percent, 3] + "%)<BR>"]
println["4-Letter words covered: " + count4 + "\t(" + format[count4/10000, percent, 3] + "%)<BR>"]
println["Total words covered: " + (count3+count4) + "\t(" + format[(count3+count4)/11000, percent, 3] + "%)<BR>"]
// Turns an array with each element separated by spaces into a dictionary
// where the key is the symbol and the value is the number.
invertMap[orig] :=
{
result = new dict
idx = 0
for codes = orig
{
for token = split[%r/\s+/g, codes]
result@token = idx
idx = idx + 1
}
return result
}
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