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National Novel Generation Month, 2014 edition.
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50 000 Finnish Numbers by hugovk #67

Open hugovk opened 10 years ago

hugovk commented 10 years ago

50 000 Finnish Numbers

The rules say:

The "novel" is defined however you want. It could be 50,000 repetitions of the word "meow". It could literally grab a random novel from Project Gutenberg. It doesn't matter, as long as it's 50k+ words.

I'd already written a Python script which, given an integer, outputs the Finnish word for that number. It's hooked up to @EveryFinnishNo on Twitter and is happily pumping out valid Finnish words every minute which have previously never been used on the internet (or at least never indexed by Google).

And given Project Gutenberg contains many classic ebooks such as One divided by Pi (to 1 million digits), The Number "e" [Natural Log] To Approximately 1 Million Places and Miscellaneous Mathematical Constants (see also these and those), the next logical step is clearly to create an 82 825-word catalogue of numbers written out with Finnish words.

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One of the best bits of the results is the patterns created on the pages.

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dariusk commented 10 years ago

Seems like all the links are broken?

hugovk commented 10 years ago

@dariusk Thanks, links fixed!