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It is not SIX (Posted on 2017-10-26) Difficulty: 2 of 5
The English word "? " describing a number X
has the value of X points in SCRABBLE.

Find X.

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DECLARE SUB enterNum ()
DECLARE SUB ProcPiece (piece$, MajorPower!)
DATA one,two,three,four,five,six,seven,eight,nine
DATA ten,eleven,twelve,thirteen,fourteen,fifteen,sixteen,seventeen
DATA eighteen,nineteen
DATA twenty,thirty,forty,fifty,sixty,seventy,eighty,ninety
DATA thousand,million,billion,trillion,quadrillion,quintillion,sextillion
DIM SHARED unit$(19), ten$(10), major$(7)

OPEN "notsix.txt" FOR OUTPUT AS #2

FOR i = 1 TO 19
  READ unit$(i)
NEXT
FOR i = 2 TO 9
  READ ten$(i)
NEXT
FOR i = 1 TO 7
  READ major$(i)
NEXT
DIM SHARED name$, num$
FOR n = 1 TO 100
        num$ = LTRIM$(STR$(n))
'        enterNum
        IF num$ = "0" THEN
                name$ = "zero"
        ELSE
                name$ = ""
                MajorPower = 0
                DO
                        l = LEN(num$): IF l > 3 THEN l = 3
                        piece$ = RIGHT$(num$, l)
                        num$ = LEFT$(num$, LEN(num$) - l)
                        CALL ProcPiece(piece$, MajorPower)
                        MajorPower = MajorPower + 1
                LOOP WHILE LEN(num$) > 0
        END IF
        tVal = 0
        FOR i = 1 TO LEN(name$)
          lt$ = MID$(name$, i, 1)
          IF INSTR("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz", lt$) > 0 THEN
            ix = INSTR("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz", lt$)
            vv = VAL(MID$("1332142418513113x11114484x", ix, 1))
            IF MID$("1332142418513113x11114484x", ix, 1) = "x" THEN vv = 10
            tVal = tVal + vv
          END IF
        NEXT
        IF tVal = n THEN
          PRINT n
          PRINT #2, n
        FOR i = 1 TO LEN(name$)
          lt$ = MID$(name$, i, 1)
          IF INSTR("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz", lt$) > 0 THEN
            ix = INSTR("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz", lt$)
            vv = VAL(MID$("1332142418513113x11114484x", ix, 1))
            IF MID$("1332142418513113x11114484x", ix, 1) = "x" THEN vv = 10
            PRINT #2, vv;
          END IF
        NEXT
          PRINT #2,
       
        END IF
'        IF tVal = 100 THEN PRINT n
NEXT

CLOSE 2

SUB enterNum
 DO
  INPUT "Enter number:", num$
  num$ = LTRIM$(RTRIM$(num$))
  num = 1
  FOR i = 1 TO LEN(num$)
    IF INSTR("0123456789", MID$(num$, i, 1)) = 0 THEN num = 0: EXIT FOR
  NEXT
  IF num = 0 THEN PRINT "Must be numeric."
 LOOP WHILE num = 0
END SUB

SUB ProcPiece (piece$, MajorPower)
  piece = VAL(piece$)
  n$ = ""
  IF piece > 99 THEN
    n$ = unit$(piece \ 100) + " hundred "
    piece = piece MOD 100
  END IF
  IF piece > 19 THEN
    n$ = n$ + ten$(piece \ 10)
    piece = piece MOD 10
    IF piece > 0 THEN n$ = n$ + "-":  ELSE n$ = n$ + " "
  END IF
  IF piece > 0 THEN n$ = n$ + unit$(piece) + " "
  IF n$ > "" THEN name$ = n$ + major$(MajorPower) + " " + name$
END SUB


  Posted by Charlie on 2017-10-26 10:42:39
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