Re: challenge: phone number to words
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- Subject: [mg20888] Re: [mg20876] challenge: phone number to words
- From: Andrew Watson <abwatson at mail.arc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 01:04:35 -0500 (EST)
- References: <199911190146.UAA01496@smc.vnet.net>
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At 8:46 PM -0500 11/18/99, Daniel Reeves wrote: >My colleague and I were having a "C vs Mathematica" debate and ended up >having a contest to see who could write the most compact program to take a >list of digits and return all the possible words corresponding to it on a >phone keypad. > The real challenge is to generate only actual English words, not just strings. I did this once many years ago with a unix shell program that made use of the built-in spell checker. If we had a Mathematica SpellCheck function it would be a piece of cake. Regards Andrew Watson