[seqfan] Re: Large English integer names: Mathematica vs. num2words

[jean-paul allouche]

May I add that IMHO the discussions on this subject tend to prove
that the sequence is ill-defined, or at least not yet well-defined ?
Even if it were (or when it is) well-defined, there would be (there will be)
unavoidable variations?

jean-paul


Le 25/04/2023 à 12:42, Hans Havermann a écrit :
> AW: "The point is that *none* of these words is 'correct'... It's often a matter of personal esthetics. But the principled will avoid the illusion that these are questions with objectively right answers."
>
> Thank you for those well-reasoned thoughts. Of course I had thought to put "correct" and "fix" in quotation marks but (unlike, perhaps, your attempt to form a consensus with the 'Book of Numbers' table) I'm not averse to bludgeoning these names into some greater conformity. If num2words actually adopts the Mathematica spellings, battle won.
>
> HvdS: "I think words are more the expertise of dictionaries than of either Mathematica or Python."
>
> I'm a big fan of dictionaries! May I recommend the 42-million-entries "dictionary of American English integer names" published in 2021? One hopes that a future edition will add (numerical) definitions. ;)
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