My Software

.number?

(written as “dot_number” in places the punctuation isn’t possible)

Ruby programmers may well be aware that you can write the following to check whether a number is equal to zero:

ruby 0.zero? # returns true

This is a library which implements that functionality more broadly, so for example:

ruby 53.fiftythree? # returns true 1500.onethousandfivehundred? # returns true 1500.fifteenhundred? # also returns true 3.four? # returns false (I did write this as a joke. I’m not sure it’s much use in the real world. But it does work.)

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DeutschTables (Beta)

The German language has three grammatical genders (plus the plural form, which effectively acts as a separate gender), a case system, several different forms of “you” and a rather complex system of adjective declension. This leads to a lot of short words and endings that have to be memorised to speak the language effectively. The logical way to present these is often in a table, but I was unable to find an existing piece of software that provided blank tables for me to fill in - so that’s what DeutschTables is.

You can try DeutschTables, which is currently in beta, at deutschtables.thebowstones.net. Alternatively, you can view more information, including screenshots.