Word Numbers: Billion Approaches (2008)
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The post discusses a mathematical problem where integers from 1 to 999,999,999 are written as words, sorted alphabetically, and concatenated, and the solution involves using Haskell and concepts like monoids and differentiation.
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Are we supposed to include spaces in this concatenated string?
In a series of posts, mathematician Dylan Thurston and computer scientist / linguist Chung-chieh Shan solve this problem step by step, introducing concepts such as monoids and differentiation along the way, use the programming language Haskell.
Epilogue: Discussion with a representative from ITA Software, the creators of the problem: http://conway.rutgers.edu/~ccshan/wiki/blog/posts/WordNumber...