Re: Is there any library for converting common English words to its equivalent numeri

> From: Kent M Pitman <pit...@nhplace.com>
> ... people might dispute whether 10 base 2 is properly read as
> "ten" in any case, but that's part of the point.  I recall reading
> somewhere, years ago (not related to CL) the claim that the
> binaries are read one (1), two (10), twin (11), twindred (100),
> twindred one (101), twindred two (110), twindred twin (111),
> twosand (1000), ... but I have never seen that silliness since.

I never saw that proposal before, but now that you mention it, I
don't think it's silly at all, I think it's a wonderful idea!!

Follow-up question. I know that the "w" is not pronounced in "two"
but *is* pronounced in "twin". So I presume it'd be pronouced in
any form that starts with "twin", such as "twindred", but not in
any form that starts with "two", such as "twosand". Is that the
original intention, or was pronounciation not discussed in the
original proposal? I would personally prefer that the "w" be
pronounced in everything except "two" itself (and forms using that
to indicate a 2 in some position where it's directly analagous to
"two" by itself). Thus "twosand" pronounces the "w", but
"two twosand" pronounces only the second "w". "twosand" would
have vowels sound like "low-hand" in Poker, for example.
The fully pronounced consonant "tw" together with the Poker vowel
"o" would sound like a lispy version of "row row row your boat",
or maybe an Elmer Fudd version of "troll-sand". (Where do
baby twolls play? In a twoll-sand box!)

So let me guess the rest:
(expt 2 6) = twillion ?  Maybe better would be mwillion?
(expt 2 9) = bwillion ?
(expt 2 12) = ???????

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Now, Mr. expert in non-decimal numeric bases, what were the
corresponding proposals for octal and hexadecimal?
Let me guess:
(expt 8 1) = eight
(expt 8 2) = en
(expt 8 3) = eousand
(expt 8 6) = eillion (pronounced eeyillion)
(expt 8 9) = byellion (like the way Carl Sagan pronounced (expt ten 9))
(expt 8 12) = tryellion
(setq hd (expt 2 4))
(expt hd 1) = steen
(expt hd 2) = stundred
(expt hd 3) = stousand
(expt hd 6) = stillion
(expt hd 9) = st'billion
(expt hd 12) = strillion

OT: I still want to find time and energy to write up my followup
to your data-intension essay to include atomic datatypes too.
It would include both physical units (like does a distance of 6
between nearby towns mean 6 miles or 6 kilometers, or parsecs vs.
lightyears between stars) and internal data representations as bit
patterns which mean different things as signed byte or unsigned
byte or floating point or character etc.
For example, what does this bit-pattern mean?
01100110 01110101 01100011 01101011 (4 consecutive bytes in RAM)
It depends on the intention of the programmer whose code generated it!
If you're using a debugger to examine memory after a program crash,
you might not have the intention readily available, so you might
have to just guess and then try to gather more information to
verify or refute your guess. But if you're writing software to
process this block of data, you'd better know a priori what the
intention was!!

Back to the main topic: Has anybody used a neural net or other
general-learning system to "learn" the relationship between input
and output of the ~R and/or ~:R directives and thereby grok the
algorithm and consequently devise the reverse algorithm without
anybody needing to explicitly code it?