Re: Grammatical Pronunciation of numbers.

Oh to be a pedant (or a fogey :). In UK, a Billion is 'traditionally' 1,000,000,000,000, a trillion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000.

So perhaps, to be terribly nice to us Brits and our confusing number system, how about an optional second argument stating whether old UK system or not?

Prattle, waffle, late night, bored, etc...

cLive ;-)

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Re: Re: Grammatical Pronunciation of numbers. by frankus (Priest) on Apr 18, 2001 at 13:06 UTC
Bloomin <a href=http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=45255&lastnode_id=864"> 'limeys', always whingin about something, ;^). My other post that points to this, does say how I had missed out different number formats, and I knew I was a bad boy for doing so. ar0n quite rightly pointed out that lhoward has done this already on CPAN, he uses regex to perform the substitution and hashes to hold the values and he greatly exceeds the number of magnitudes I use. As for the number format, is it wrong? I checked it and it worked for british numbers. lhowards works for several of formats. -- Brother Frankus.	[reply]

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Re: Re: Grammatical Pronunciation of numbers.
by frankus (Priest) on Apr 18, 2001 at 13:06 UTC

Bloomin <a href=http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=45255&lastnode_id=864"> 'limeys', always whingin about something, ;^). My other post that points to this, does say how I had missed out different number formats, and I knew I was a bad boy for doing so.

ar0n quite rightly pointed out that lhoward has done this already on CPAN, he uses regex to perform the substitution and hashes to hold the values and he greatly exceeds the number of magnitudes I use.

As for the number format, is it wrong? I checked it and it worked for british numbers. lhowards works for several of formats.

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Brother Frankus.

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