hakank's useless programs

Here is some of my more or less useless programs. Some of them are just plain silly, some may actually be of some use, especially for recreational linguistics and recreational mathematics.

Regular expressions

Make Regex Generate a regular expression given a list of words. (1997-02-12)

Words, strings etc

Most of these word, string, etc programs is (if applicable) done for the Swedish as well as the English language.

Svenska synonymvägar (2006-02-13) (Swedish) Shows synonym paths for Swedish words.
Svenska synonymer (2006-02-12) (Swedish) Shows Swedish synonyms.
Visa ordklasser (2006-01-30) (Swedish) Shows word classes for Swedish texts, and guess via suffixes.
Word Meld Simple (2006-01-25) Tries to create "creative words" by melding two given words (a simpler version of Word Meld, see below).
Prefix trees (2006-01-23) Given a list of words, creates shortest possible unique prefixes as well as a "prefix tree".
Generate Simple Anagram (2005-09-21) Generates anagrams with different methods.
Simple Text Summation (2005-09-19) Create very simple text summation.
Edit distances (2005-09-11) Edit distances, Levenshtein and Hirschberg algorithms are shown as the operations needed, and as graphical representation.
base_conv (2005-08-27): Yet another word to number to word conversion
Consonants Away (2005-06-01) What words are common if there where no consonants? (Cf Vowels Away
Chiasmus words (character) (2005-01-15) Switch place of characters in two words.
Spelling out words (2004-11-27) convert (Swedish) words according to spelled out representation.
Isomorphic Words (2004-05-08) Search for words that have the same structure as (is isomorphic to) a word.
Devil's word (2004-03-29) Find coincidences in a word.
Blog Markov genererating random text similiar to my weblog hakank.blogg (Swedish) (2003-12-21)
Find hidden words (2003-09-26) Find hidden words in random text
Generate spelling errors (2003-09-17) Creating texts with spelling errors
Reading scrambled words (2003-09-15) Do we understand scrambled words?
Word Meld Applet Creates combined words. A Java Applet version of Word Meld. (2003-03-24)
Cross word Applet A Java Applet version of Cross Words (2003-03-24) (see below)
New Markov words II - highly experimental. Randomly generating new words using Markov n-grams with a lot of options. (2002-10-28)
Markov generated Bob Hund Markov generated Bob Hund texts. (2002-10-12)
Markov generated proverbs Markov generated Swedish proverbs. (2002-10-12)
New Markov words Randomly generating new words using Markov n-grams. (2002-10-03)
Anagramatical words Lists (one word) anagrams in Swedish and English. (2002-10-02)
Word numbers Calculate the word number of a word (2002-10-02)
Mobile words Convert a text to a mobile keystroke sequence (and back). (2002-10-01)
Word build Guess a random 8-letter word. Training device for Ordbygget (Word build). (2002-10-01)
Nearest words Show nearest words (2002-09-30)
Cross word Word finder for cross word solvers (2002-09-30)
Word Meld Generates melding words (more advanced that Prefix Meld) (2001-11-19)
Prefix Meld Generates mixed words (1999-11-05)
Combograms ("cryptograms") What words can be constructed given some letters. (1998-11-06) (2003-05-21: some new features)
Stable Finger Words What words can be constructed without moving fingers? (1999-02-11)
Simple rhyme. (And I mean simple...) (1998-12-07)
Anagramator. Checks for anagrams in a text. (1999-03-12) >
Anagram Guess Guess the correct word (Swedish). (1999-02-12)
Some palindroms (Swedish and English) (1998-12-10)
Abbreviation Magic Make an abbr.
Vowels Away (1999-03-30) What words are common if there where no vowels?
DeAcronymizer. De-acronymize a word. (1999-02-12)
u4k (unpacking words packed with the p2k method. (1999-03-22)

Math, Dates etc

de Bruijn arbitrary sequences (2006-04-19) de Bruijn sequences of arbitrary length
Seseman's Convent Problem (2005-11-04) Solutions for the recreational mathematical puzzle "Seseman Convent Problem" (placing and counting nuns in a convent). The (Swedish) blog post Sesemans matematiska klosterproblem samt lite Constraint Logic Programming presents formulation and more discussion of the problem.
De Bruijn sequences (2003-03-24) Applet version.
De Bruijn sequences (2003-03-04)
Sequence Guessing Guess the sequence. (1997-09-04)
Holiday Calc Calculation of a date given a text description. (1998-11-22)
Swedish Approximate Clock (Swedish) (1999-02-11)
English Approximate Clock (English) (1999-11-17)
Binary Clock The time in binary format. (1999-02-19)

Other things

Generera en aforism (slump) (in Swedish) (1998-10-20)
Modern Parlör (Swedish) Translations for the modern society. (1999-03-24)
Netch Path Shortest path for Netch. (1998-10-12)

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