On Feb 22, 2005, at 4:04 PM, Lee Marlow wrote:

> Attached is my solution.

Just FYI, I get some pretty unusual output when I run this on the quiz 
phone number using /usr/share/dict/words as my dictionary.  Here's a 
little of what I see:

$ echo '873.7829' | ruby phonewords.rb -d /usr/share/dict/words
8-Q
-7-TA
URF
-T
-Y
T
-3-PU
-Z
U
-ES
-AW
UR
-7-T
-Y
US
-Q
-A
U
-3-P
-2-Z
URD
-U
...

James Edward Gray II