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(Telephone-Number Word Generator) Standard telephone keywords contain the digits 0 through 9. The numbers 2 through 9 each have three letters associated with them, as is indicated by the following table:
Digit Letter | Digit Letter |
2 ABC 3 DEF 4 GHI 5 JKL |
6 MNO 7 PQRS 8 TUV 9 WXYZ |
Fig. 14.18 Telephone digit-to-letter mappings.
Many people find it difficult to memorize phone numbers, so they use the correspondence between digits and letters to develop seven-letter words that correspond to their phone numbers. For example, a person whose telephone number is 686-2377 might use the correspondence indicated in the above table to develop the seven-letter word "NUMBERS."
Businesses frequently attempt to get telephone numbers that are easy for their clients to remember. If a business can advertise a simple word for its customers to dial, then no doubt the business will receive a few more calls. Each seven-letter word corresponds to exactly one seven-digit telephone number. The restaurant wishing to increase its take-home business could surely do so with the number 825-3688 (i.e., "TAKEOUT"). Each seven-digit phone number corresponds to many separate seven-letter words. Unfortunately, most of these represent unrecognizable juxtapositions of letters. It's possible, however, that the owner of a barber shop would be pleased to know that the shop's telephone number, 424-7288, corresponds to "HAIRCUT" A veterinarian with the phone number 738-2273 would be happy to know that the number corresponds "PETCARE.”
Write a program that, given a seven-digit number, writes to a file every possible seven-letter word corresponding to that number. There are 2187 (3 to the seventh power) such words. Avoid phone numbers with the digits 0 and 1.

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