mnemonics.frink

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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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Alan Eliasen was born 20143 days, 11 hours, 56 minutes ago.