Monday, June 30, 2008

Rhyme by Number

Number words constitute a small collection of words that are easily encoded in an alternate representation (numerals).

  • oh zero
  • one two three four five six seven eight nine
  • ten eleven twelve
  • {thir, four, fif, six, seven, eight, nine}teen
  • {twen, thir, four, fif, six, seven, eigh, nine}ty
  • hundred thousand million billion trillion

Reading over the MPEG-1 specifications annex document from the ISO, I found an interesting poem:

short blocks
scale factor bands, width of band
index of start, index of end
zero four zero three
one four four seven
two four eight,
eleven.

I'm curious how many sound-features of English language poetry can be imitated in numbers. Here's my own number-poem (to be spoken aloud):

1 5 13
2 1 20
0 3 14
5 0 70
25 22
26 27
59 62
811

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