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+## Remarks
+## https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Four_is_magic#Python
+
+from collections import OrderedDict
+ 
+numbers = {1: 'one', 2: 'two', 3: 'three', 4: 'four', 5: 'five', 6: 'six', 7: 'seven', 8: 'eight', 9: 'nine'}
+
+numbers = OrderedDict(sorted(numbers.items(), key = lambda t: t[0], reverse = True))
+
+def string_representation(i: int) -> str:
+    """
+    Return the english string representation of an integer
+    """
+    if i == 0:
+        return "zero"
+
+    words = ['negative'] if i < 0 else []
+
+    working_copy = abs(i)
+
+    for key, value in numbers.items():
+        if key <= working_copy:
+            times = int(working_copy / key)
+ 
+            if key >= 100:
+                words.append(string_representation(times))
+
+            words.append(value)
+            working_copy -= times * key
+
+        if working_copy == 0:
+            break
+ 
+    return " ".join(words)
+
+
+def next_phrase(i: int):
+    """
+    Generate all the phrases
+    """
+    while not i == 4:  # Generate phrases until four is reached
+        str_i = string_representation(i)
+        len_i = len(str_i)
+
+        yield str_i, "is", string_representation(len_i)
+
+        i = len_i
+ 
+    ## The Last Phrase
+    yield string_representation(i), "is", "magic"
+ 
+ 
+def magic(i: int) -> str:
+    phrases = []
+
+    for phrase in next_phrase(i):
+        phrases.append(" ".join(phrase))
+
+    return f'{", ".join(phrases)}.'.capitalize()
+
+
+## Driver Code
+ 
+## nInput = 5 ## Example 1:
+## nInput = 7 ## Example 2:
+nInput = 6 ## Example 3:
+    
+strMsg = magic(nInput)
+
+print (strMsg)
+