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50 000 Finnish Numbers by hugovk #67

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hugovk opened this issue Nov 5, 2014 · 2 comments
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50 000 Finnish Numbers by hugovk #67

hugovk opened this issue Nov 5, 2014 · 2 comments

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@hugovk
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hugovk commented Nov 5, 2014

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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  • Chapter 1: 10 000 Finnish Numbers
  • Chapter 2: 10 000 Finnish Numbers by Length of Word
  • Chapter 3: 10 000 Finnish Numbers in Alphabetical Order
  • Chapter 4: 5 000 Roman Numerals and 5 000 Finnish Numbers
  • Chapter 5: 10 000 Alternating Finnish and English Numbers
  • Chapter 6: 10 000 Digits of Pi in Finnish

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

Pages from the catalogue
Pages from the catalogue
Pages from the catalogue
Pages from the catalogue
Pages from the catalogue

Full catalogue

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dariusk commented Nov 5, 2014

Seems like all the links are broken?

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hugovk commented Nov 5, 2014

@dariusk Thanks, links fixed!

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