Comments on Hummus and Magnets: Fabaceae

D'oh, I really should have included zero. I've mi...

2007-08-25T10:01:00.000+02:00

D'oh, I really should have included zero. I've missed words like c0ffee, d00dad and face0ff. Using 1 as L does make the words harder to read I think. It did give me an idea though: in Java you can use the L at the end of a long constant as part of the word: 0xC00L.

Seeing that someone else has done this makes me feel better about doing it myself. However, I think using 5 and 7 (and 8 for ate) makes some of the words very hard to read -- 7e55e118, f0071005e.

Maybe they could be allowed if there was a rule that they could only occur in places surrounded by real letters, or only one or two times in a word.

Ned Batchelder made such a list. His also uses 5 ...

2007-08-25T02:48:00.000+02:00

Ned Batchelder made such a list. His also uses 5 for S and 7 for T. See here.

I don't want to dispute your assertion that this i...

2007-08-24T23:30:00.000+02:00

I don't want to dispute your assertion that this is a waste of time, but:

You can use zero for the letter o and one for the letter l too. On a Linux box the following (all on one line) will get you a nice list:

egrep '^[oOla-f]{1,8}$' /usr/share/dict/words

At this point, xkcd's elaborate fantasies seem strangely appropriate.