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Click here to download Number2Word.zip (368kb) You'll need to download the dictionaries (121kb)
Be sure to unzip the three dictionary files into the same directory as your Number2Word.Exe program.
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Enter a 7 digit phone number and see what words might me made from the number. I saw a program on the internet somewhere that did this same thing... but they wanted money for it so I decided to write one for myself. It simply creates words using all the permutations of the phone number. It the word is found in the dictionary it displays that word. Enjoy Don |
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If your phone number has 1s or 0s then your chances are not good because 1s and 0s have no letters associated with them on the telephone pad. If you have Microsoft Word installed you can click the "Use Microsoft Spell Check" to check the words. It's a lot slower but it's a better spell checker and will sometimes pickup words the internal one will miss. I started out wilh a 100,000+ word dictionary and the file size was 3.32 megs. I realized that if I was searching for words to match phone numbers the longest word I could possibly use would be no more than 7 characters. I wrote a little utility to go through the dictionary and take out any word larger than 7 characters. That knocked the dictionary file down to 30,000+ words and the file size down to 1.5 megs. The random access file I was using reserved space for a 30 character word but now I only needed space for a 7 character word so I reset that and the final dictionary file is 30,000 words but it's only 306k. And it's only 119k zipped for download. The custom dictionary (Custom.dic) is a simple text file so you can add words in there if you like. Just put each new word on a separate line and make sure no words are longer than 7 characters. Here's how the program breaks up the phone number to check for words: 1234567 1-234567 12-34567 123-4567 1234-567 12345-67 123456-7 1-234-567 123-456-7 123-4-567 1-23456-7 1-2345-67 12-3456-7 12-345-67 |
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