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Old 10-21-2004, 06:37 PM   #13 (permalink)
Valmont
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No. I made a spelling error. This is what I mean:

"Three Hundred"
You have the word "Three" and "Hundred" defined already. Use what you got already to define "Three Hundred".

My native language is not the english language, but if I analyze the language, then I see the following distinctions:
UNITS: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine ... nineteen.
TENS: ten, twenty ... ninety.
HUNDREDS: hundred.
THOUSANDS: thousand.
MILLIONS: million.
SIGN: minus
ADDITIONAL: and

With this, you can form a truly neat sentence like:
"Minus Four Hundred and Fifty Seven".
Without cheating.

This is the essence of language analisys. Next step is to formalize it into some math, wich in turn is part of a sophisticated algorithm. It's harder then you think. I needed myself to throw in the best I can. Now you try to pump out what you can. You have the C++ know-how. Now it's time for some thinking. You do that on paper. Not in the IDE.

I go to bed now. I'll see you later.
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