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https://github.com/shanecelis/sixteen-years-of-success
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- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/shanecelis/sixteen-years-of-success
- Owner: shanecelis
- Created: 2024-05-02T20:53:16.000Z (8 months ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2024-05-06T22:16:02.000Z (8 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-10-29T00:44:11.818Z (about 2 months ago)
- Language: Rust
- Size: 80.1 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
# sixteen-years-of-success
Les Stewart (Australia) is the fastest person to have typed out the numbers one to one million on a typewriter.
It took 19,990 quarto sheets and 16 years to complete, finishing on December 7, 1998.
— Guinness World Records (@GWR) January 10, 2022
This is dedicated to Les Stewart the man who spent 16 years writing out the
numbers from one to one million in English—[with one finger!](https://www.ctvnews.ca/halifax-man-spends-12-years-typing-out-numbers-to-1m-1.648060)
> "I just did what I was best at and if you do what you’re good at, then you’re halfway there."—[Les Stewart](https://www.news18.com/viral/meet-the-australian-man-who-spent-16-years-typing-numbers-one-to-one-million-8781004.html#)
# Example
## One argument specifies the max
``` sh
> ./sixteen-years-of-success 5
one,
two,
three,
four,
five.
```
## Two arguments specifies the min and max
``` sh
> ./sixteen-years-of-success 5 10
five,
six,
seven,
eight,
nine,
ten.
```
## No arguments will go from one to one million
> Seven manual typewriters, 1000 ink ribbons, 19,890 pages, 16 years and seven months later, he finished with the lines:
```
nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine.
one million.
```
And this tool:
``` sh
> ./sixteen-years-of-success | tail -2
nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine,
one million.
```
# References
- [I joke on mastodon](https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@shanecelis/112367041624311312)
- [Typewriter odyssey half over](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/typewriter-odyssey-half-over-1.404232)
- [World Record for Typing Numbers in Words](https://www.recordholders.org/en/records/typing.html)
- [Halifax man spends 12 years typing out numbers to 1M](https://www.ctvnews.ca/halifax-man-spends-12-years-typing-out-numbers-to-1m-1.648060)
- [Meet The Australian Man Who Spent 16 Years Typing Numbers One To One Million](https://www.news18.com/viral/meet-the-australian-man-who-spent-16-years-typing-numbers-one-to-one-million-8781004.html#)