Convert number words to integer

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This is a medium difficulty Coding & Algorithms question, commonly asked during Take-home Project rounds at Bank of America.

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Given a line containing an English phrase representing a number in the range −999,999,999 to 999,999,999, convert it to its integer value. Supported words: negative, zero, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety, hundred, thousand, million. Negative numbers are prefixed with "negative". The word "hundred" is not used when "thousand" could be (e.g., 1500 is "one thousand five hundred"). Print the decimal representation for each input line. Examples: "fifteen" → 15; "negative six hundred thirty eight" → -638.

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This question evaluates textual number parsing, tokenization, and numeric mapping skills, testing string manipulation and lexical interpretation within the Coding & Algorithms domain for a Data Scientist role and emphasizing practical application rather than pure theoretical concepts.

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Convert number words to integer

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