Digit Alphabets
Currently we are supporting these alphabets:
Digit alphabet
This
alphabet is designed as an aid to remember numbers. You can think of
telephone numbers, dates of birth, ZIP codes etc. It is based on the
fact that most people are better in memorizing words than numbers. The
trick is that for each digit in the number there are one or more
letters to choose from. After that, you may prepend, insert of append
any number of other letters that do not have an associated digit. This
allows you to construct an easy-to-remember word or small sentence.
Whenever you want to know a specific number, you decode the word or
sentence.
The digit alphabet maps some of the characters of the latin alphabet to
a
digit, according to the following table:
Characters
|
Digit |
s
|
z
|
0
|
t
|
d
|
1
|
n
|
ñ
|
2
|
m
|
|
3
|
r
|
|
4
|
l
|
|
5
|
q
|
k
|
6
|
g
|
ch
|
7
|
f
|
v
|
8
|
p
|
b
|
9
|
(We thank D.J. Ligterink for
providing the definition of the digit alphabet.)
Telephone alphabet
This alphabet is found on supposedly any modern telephone. It allows
users to enter a word while effectievely just entering a number to
dial. Companies aquire numbers that code in to relevant words for their
business. Most people just have the telephone number that was assigned
to them. Our services allows you to find a word or sentence that
matches your telephone number.
The telephone alphabet has one shortcoming for this trick to work: the
are no letters assigned to the digit 0 en 1. So, any telephone number
that contains one or more 0's and/or 1's, cannot be converted into a
word. That is, if you would leave out the 0's and 1's, decoding back to
the number would fail.
Characters
|
Digit |
none/space
|
0
|
none
|
1
|
a
|
b
|
c
|
|
2
|
d
|
e
|
f
|
|
3
|
g
|
h
|
i
|
|
4
|
j
|
k
|
l
|
|
5
|
m
|
n
|
o
|
|
6
|
p
|
q
|
r
|
s
|
7
|
t
|
u
|
v
|
|
8
|
w
|
x
|
y
|
z
|
9
|
Note that each of the 26 letters of the alphabet map to a number.
Therefore, any number that contains no 0's and no 1's will code into
words of the same length as the number.