Questions tagged [numbers-to-words]

Converting numbers to their English representation is a common programming challenge where the goal is to take a number as input and output it's English equivalent. For example: input 1024; output "One Thousand Twenty-Four".

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Very Simple Spell (Number to Words) 001 to 999 in VBA

I have come across many spell number functions and have reviewed many VBA code available on the net. The core function that gets called repeatedly is the function that converts numbers from 001 to ...
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Converting int values in Java to human readable strings in English

(See also the next iteration.) I have rolled this short program that converts int values to the human readable strings: ...
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Converting numbers to text

This code seems to work fine but I am sure this reads very amateurish. I would appreciate your comments as to how to make this code more "professional": ...
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Spelling Java long values to human readable text in English

Now, I have extended my program taking some answers in the previous iteration into account: ...
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Converting numbers to English words

This is a simple program to convert a number, from 0 up to 99999999, to English words. Example: If the input is: 1234 The output would be: one thousand two ...
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Number to Text converter in Haskell

I've written this code in Haskell to convert a number into its written form. It feels ok but at the same time I feel like it can probably be improved on a lot. I would appreciate help in improving it. ...
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Converting number to words

First it asks for user to input a number and it will convert it into words. For example: 104382426112 to ...
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Number to spanish word converter

This converts from a number to a Spanish word for example : 100 => cien 200 => doscientos I used a divide-and-conquer approach: Constants: ...
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Function to spell numbers below 1,000,000,000 [closed]

I wrote simple code to spell the number below 1,000,000,000. It works perfectly as per my intention. However, I do think my code is a little bit messy since I only able to imagine of using decision ...
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Converting a number into Hungarian text

I'd like to convert some integer number from a cell between 0 and 1,000,000,0000 into Hungarian text. I've found already a solution, a VBA function. How can be improved this solution? ...
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PowerShell - Convert English words describing numbers to their values in Arabic numeral

I am extremely new to programming, and I am a really fast learner if I am interested, I have only started using PowerShell in less than a month, to improve my programming skill, this is a script I ...
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Number-to-word converter

My code works, but the aesthetic of the code seems to need some real work. The logic is simple enough: Create three lists of words that will be used throughout the conversion Create three functions: ...
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Indian Numbering System - converting into the Official and Common-Use Numbering Systems Words/Strings

I have developed the following short JavaScript function to convert numbers to the Indian Numbering System formats; both the Official Numbering System and the Common-Use System (i.e. using the Lakh-...
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Simple Number to Words using a Single Loop String Triplets in JavaScript

I have extensively reviewed 2 old articles on the subject: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14766951/convert-digits-into-words-with-javascript and https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5529934/...
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Number in words: recursive function

I would appreciate some feedback on the below code I wrote for a Project Euler problem. The answer comes out correct but I'd like feedback on the design of the function and implementation of ...
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Japanese reading of an integer

Inspired by CtCI 16.8: Integer to English phrase in C++, I wrote a program to show the Japanese reading of an integer (positive, negative, or zero). The Japanese is written in Hepburn romanization to ...
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CtCI 16.8: Integer to English phrase in C++

I'm a C++ beginner working through Cracking the Coding Interview. This is question 16.8: Given any integer, print an English phrase that describes the integer (e.g., "One Thou­sand, Two Hundred ...
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Project Euler #17: Number Letter Counts

If the numbers 1 to 5 are written out in words: one, two, three, four, five, then there are 3 + 3 + 5 + 4 + 4 = 19 letters used in total. If all the numbers from 1 to 1000 (one thousand) inclusive ...
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Simple Number to Words using a Single Loop String Triplets in VBA

As an update (conversion) to my article “Simple Number to Words using a Single Loop String Triplets in JavaScript” in JavaScript, I have converted the code to work as a VBA function using the same ...
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Convert number to words

I wrote this converter code. It can convert a number from 1-100 into words. It works perfectly, but it seems to be too complicated to me. Can you tell me whether it's okay or not? ...
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Spelling a number in English

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Converting numbers to words - Python

I'm new to programming. I tried to find a way to convert numbers into letters with Python. I would like to receive some advice to improve myself. This program works for numbers between 1 and 106 and ...
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Integers to English words in C

As a beginner in C programming, I decided to write a function words that, given an unsigned integer n, puts the English ...
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A program that spells a given number [1-999,999,999,999]

This program created by me spells a number in the standard notation (Billions, Millions etc). I was wondering if there is a better way to do the same thing, or if I have been a victim of some of the ...
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Python Converting numbers to words, using Recursive

My function recursively calls itself until it decodes every numbers. rec_ntw face_value_count -> (Incremental variable) denotes ones, tens, hundreds and thousands face_value -> (Dictionary) denotes ...
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Int extension for translating integer to plain English

This code was inspired by this question: Number to Words ...
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Converting a large number into something like: 4 Novemnongent

This is not a school project, just something to help me learn some Python! Just looking to see what I can improve on, looking for tips to reduce size & make it a bit easier for the computer to run ...
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Converting English words to numbers in Haskell

A few weeks ago, I finished a number to word converter and received an excellent review. It caused me to make several fundamental changes to numToWord, such as ...
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Converting numbers to words in Haskell

Here's a program I wrote to convert numbers into English words using Haskell. ...
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Number to word converter (1 to 99 inclusive)

Program It takes a numerical input in range [1, 99] and outputs its word equivalent. Concerns Procedural approach General code style Code ...
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Number to words in Python 3

Here is a sample program I have written to convert numbers to words: ...
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Number to text conversion (Check writing application)

How It Works: Inspired by r/dailyprogrammer, the application uses regular expressions to group 1-3 digits at a time from right to left, each captured group is then converted to text. Program Class <...
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Convert time 24hr format into time as words

I'm currently writing a Scala Object that converts time 24hr format (i.e. 00:00 - 23:59) into Time As Words (i.e. Eight o'clock, Half past eight, Quarter to nine etc). How can I refactor the current ...
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Create the English word for a number

I cobbled together a function from various sources that takes an integer and returns it as its respective English word formatted as a string. The function is as follows: ...
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Converts number in text format function code

I have created a function which converts numbers into text format and successfully converted up to 6 digit numbers. However, I want to know if I can make any modifications to make the code shorter. ...
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Measuring the length of binary numbers in English words in C

Inspired by this question (link to original video), I decided to write some code in C to perform this task, and it is much faster than the Python code, even when run with PyPY, up to a billion, it ...
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Number to English word converter

This is a simple program that I wrote. It takes a 64-bit unsigned int as input and returns its English name. ...
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Convert an Integer number to readable format in Java

The number is ranging from 1 to 999999999. ...
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Integer to English challenge

I have a challenge, which is to create a JavaScript function that turns a given number into the string representation. For example: console.log(inToEnglish(15)) ...
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Number-to-words translator

I've created a class that translates an integer into words in an English (not British) format. My first human language is not English, and I don't have a good idea of a truly right way to read numbers,...
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Method to convert numbers into plain text

I'm relatively new to Java, and over the past week or so I've just been reading through the docs and messing around with it to better improve my understanding. As stated in the title, I've created a ...
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Project Euler 17: counting letters needed to write numbers

The statement of the problem is : If the numbers 1 to 5 are written out in words: one, two, three, four, five, then there are 3 + 3 + 5 + 4 + 4 = 19 letters used in total. If all the numbers ...
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Decimal numbers to English string representation

Is there anything that I could have reworked here? I have a Java 7 mind but I'm working on getting my Java 8 ready, so if there are any improvements over readability of performance here I'd love to ...
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One, two, three, … Un, deux, trois, …, maxBound::Int

I wrote a numbers-to-words converter for English, then tried to adapt the code to work for French. I'm wondering mainly whether any simplifications are possible. In English English is relatively ...
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SHOUTY_SNAKE_CASED NUMBERS

WE_ALL_LOVE_SHOUTY_SNAKE_CASE_SO_I_WROTE_A_PROGRAM_FOR_IT!!1! Alright, enough of this. This is a rags-to-riches from this question. The pattern is pretty simple, it takes a ...
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Number to words in left to right direction

I have faced this question in an interview: If we enter a number it will convert into individual strings and display in same order. Ex: If I enter 564 then the ...
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Text representation for numbers with python

Simple function which returns a text representation for numbers in range [1...1000]. ...
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Print and calculate French written numbers from 1 to 1000 using imperative Java

I've written a little (imperative) java program that basically prints out all french written numbers from 1 to 1000. (I'm learning how to write them) Based on the first numbers (1-16) and the tens ...
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Project Euler no. 17: Counting letters to write the numbers from 1 to 1000

I'm very new to programming and am admittedly embarrassed sharing my code for critique. This code works and produces the correct answer to the Project Euler Problem 17, which asks how many letters ...
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Number to Word Application in C#

I've created a Windows Form Number to Word converter application in C# which converts any number from 0 to 1 million. I would love a review based on efficiency and best practices. MainInterface.cs <...