Dan's Amazing Number System
Ever needed an easy way to remember large numbers? Well, now you can use
simple, easy-to-remember words like "firebat" to remember tricky numbers like
21643!. Just use DANS - Dan's Amazing Number System!
For example:
- Wouldn't it have been better if the song '8675309' had been 'fishbeatwormyank' instead?
- The Unix system time is
fishtankfrontbookbinge
- The time of day here in Sydney is
pen
: card
: pen
- The date is
Saturday, the crack
th of November, sunhole
Gee Willikers, how does it work?
DANS translates numbers into base-181 encoding, with the digits being represented by single-syllable nouns. The encoding dictionary can be found here. If you want the encoding scripts, they're here (word to number) and here (number to word).
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