Method and system for mnemonic encoding of numbers

A method in a computer system for decoding an encoding of a number to determine the number represented by the encoding, the encoding being a sequence of words, comprising:

• receiving a table of words, each word having an index;
• initializing the number to zero;
• and
• repeating the following for each word in the encoding:
• determining the index of the word in the received table;
• multiplying the number by the count of words in the table;
• and
• adding the determined index to the number.

A method in a computer system for representing alphanumeric strings as sequences of words, the method comprising:

• for each alphanumeric string, assigning a unique sequence of words;
• and
• after assigning the unique sequence to each alphanumeric strings,
• receiving an alphanumeric string;
• determining the unique sequence of words that is assigned to the received alphanumeric string;
• and
• indicating that the determined unique sequence of words represents the received alphanumeric string.

A method in a computer system for providing to a user mnemonic representations of numbers, the method comprising:

• for each of a plurality of numbers:
• identifying a unique sequence of words that corresponds to the number;
• and
• displaying to a user that identified unique sequence of words;
• and
• for each of a plurality of sequences of words:
• receiving from the user that displayed unique sequence of words;
• and
• determining the number that corresponds to that unique sequence of words whereby the user need only know the provided unique sequence of words to indicate the number and the computer system internally uses another representation of the numbers.

A computer-readable medium containing instructions for causing a computer system to encode a number as a sequence of words, the words being selected from a table of words that do not correspond to digits in a standard numbering system, each word in the table having an index, by:

• calculating an integer quotient of the number divided by a count of the words in the table;
• calculating a remainder of the number divided by the count of the words in the table;
• and
• repeating the following until the integer quotient is zero:
• selecting the word in the table that is indexed by the remainder;
• adding the word to the sequence;
• calculating a new remainder of the integer quotient divided by the count of the words in the table;
• and
• calculating a new integer quotient of the integer quotient divided by the count of the words in the table.

A computer-readable medium containing instructions for causing a computer system to decode an encoding of a number to determine the number represented by the encoding, the encoding being a sequence of words, by:

• receiving a table of words that do not correspond to digits in a standard numbering system, each word having an index;
• initializing the number to zero;
• and
• repeating the following for each word in the encoding:
• determining the index of the word in the received table;
• multiplying the number by the count of words in the table;
• and
• adding the determined index to the number.

A computer system for representing numbers as sequences of words, comprising:

• a data structure containing a plurality of words;
• an encode component that receives a number and selects a unique sequence of words from the data structure to represent the number and that displays the selected sequence to a user;
• and
• a decode component that receives from a user a sequence of words and that identifies the number represented by the received sequence.