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L33tspeak Converter
L33tspeak - the act of speaking like a computer hacker (or hax0r) - was popularized in the late 1990s as a mechanism of abusing ASCII art and character mappings to confuse outsiders. It was a lot of fun. One popular comic strip in 2000 showed just how far the joke ran.
In L33Tspeak you substitute letters for their rough outlines in ASCII characters, e.g. symbols or numbers. You can have 1:1 mappings (like E -> 3) or 1:many mappings (like W -> `//). So then you wind up with words like this:
BASIC => 6451C
ELEET => 3L337 (pronounced elite)
WOW => `//0`//
MOM => (V)0(V)
Mappings
For this challenge we'll be using a subset of American Standard Leetspeak:
A -> 4
B -> 6
E -> 3
I -> 1
M -> (V)
N -> (\)
O -> 0
S -> 5
T -> 7
V -> \/
W -> `//
Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to translate to L33T.
Example
storm -> 570R(V)