From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2008-08-02T03:54:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Help me with this Numerology code please...

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 5:06 AM, Web Reservoir <webreservoir@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am planning to implement a Numerology code like this.
>
> Every alphabet in Numerology is given a number like this...
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> 1     2     3     4      5      6     7     8      9
>
> A     B     C     D      E      F     G     H      I
>
> J     K     L     M      N      O     P     Q      R
>
> S     T     U     V      W      X     Y      Z
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> Or you can even say that
>
> 1 = A, J, S
> 2 = B, K, T
> 3 = C, L, U
> 4 = D, M, V
> 5 = E, N, W
> 6 = F, O, X
> 7 = G, P, Y
> 8 = H, Q, Z
> 9 = I, R
>
> Now when you type RUBY you should get the total as 9+3+2+7 = (21) 2+1 =
> 3
> where R = 9, U = 3, B = 2 and y = 7 ( as shown above )

golfing solution...

'HELLO'.unpack('C*').inject(0){|s, b|s+(b-65)%9}

Todd