The best number on Google Voice

I got a GV invite today and had to choose which number I want. Of course all the repeated digits are gone (215-777-7772, ...) are gone. Google provides a simple interface to find a good number, but this is the interface I like, grep:


===So I did the following (Mac 10.5 / Safari)===

1. Download all available Google Voice phone numbers for a given area code.

2. Normalize the data:

grep -ho +1484....... *js | sort -u | cut -c 3- > numbers

3. Grep through to find the best numbers available (some example results shown):

# repetition
grep "\([0-9]\{4\}\).*\1" numbers
>> 4843248432

#pairs
grep "\([0-9]\)\1.*\([0-9]\)\2.*\([0-9]\)\3" numbers
>> 4842220022
>> 4842220044

# repetition
grep '\([0-9]\)\1\{3\}' numbers
>> 4849388886

# only 3 digits (mostly)
grep '^[483]\+.$' numbers
>> 4843344881

# palindromes
grep "\([0-9]\)\([0-9]\)\([0-9]\)\([0-9]\).?\4\3\2\1" numbers
>> 4846399364
>> 4842020248

# toggle
grep "\([0-9]\)\([0-9]\)\1\2\1\2" numbers
>> 4842020204

grep "484\([0-9]\)\([0-9]\)\1\2" numbers
>> xxx

# only two digits (except area code)
grep "484\([0-9]\)\1\*\([0-9]\)\(\1\|\2\)\{5\}" numbers
>> 4842020002
>> 4842020020
>> 4842020022
>> 4842020220
>> 4842220002
>> 4842220020
>> 4842220022
>> 4842220202
>> 4842220220

# more toggle
grep "\([0-9]\)\([0-9]\)\1\2.*\([0-9]\)\([0-9]\)\3\4\3" numbers
>> 4848580808

# the best
grep "\([0-9]\)\([0-9]\)\1\2\1.*\([0-9]\)\([0-9]\)\3\4\3" numbers
ABABACDCDC

This is my new number. All the others are up for grabs.

Thanks for help from Chris Nolan who provided expeditious python scripting in support of this effort.

Comments

More notes:

http://privacylog.blogspot.com/2009/08/full-google-hack.html

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