531-8008 by minusbaby
What have bliss, googol, eggshell and oilhole in common? Think of your days in school where you got your first calculator. Right, you can write these words with it.
I asked myself in these days: “How many words can you write on it? And which are they?”
While I was browsing on Flickr for a picture with data and numbers I saw one with these “calculator words”. So, I decided to write a program to find them. This program is written in Python and uses the two megabytes (it’s small) NetBSD word list.
words = open("/usr/share/dict/words").readlines()
def is_good(char):
chars = ['b', 'e', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'l', 'o', 's']
if char not in chars:
return False
return True
def bad_word(word):
for char in word:
if is_good(char) == False:
return True
return False
for word in words:
word = word[:-1] # strip "n"
if bad_word(word) == False:
print word
Together with this program I created a list which contains words which are writable on a calculator and theirs encodings in digits.
def to_digit(char):
table = {'o': '0',
'i': '1',
'e': '3',
'h': '4',
's': '5',
'g': '6',
'l': '7',
'b': '8'}
return table[char]
def to_calc_word(word):
out = []
for char in word:
out.append(to_digit(char))
out.reverse()
return "".join(out)