Roger: - 10^6 is "million", 10^9 is "milliard", 10^12 is "billion", 10^15 is "nilliard", and 10^18 is "trillion" - in (a) 73 is soixante-treize (not treis) - in (b) "dix-mille" is actually correct for 10,000, dix-millième is 1/10,000 Now if you want a real fun part, in Belgium for "70" and "90" we say 'septante" et "nonante" instead of "soixante-dix" and "quatre-vingt-dix" in French. And for the record, the swiss also use "huitante" ou "octante" instead of qutare-vingt" for 80. So belgian and swiss compliance might be more tricky to implement :-) See the following Wikipedia page: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nombres_en_fran%C3%A7ais http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nom_des_grands_nombres http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_nombres best Pascal
Roger Hui wrote: > I am contemplating adding a French section to > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/Number_in_Words > I would appreciate it if members of Forum whose > mother tongue is French can verify or correct > the following description: > > The name in French of a non-negative integer > is formed on groups of 3 digits, starting from > the right. Each group is suffixed with the name > of the unit, and a group of three 0-digits > is omitted (unless all groups are all 0-digits, > in which case the name is "zéro"). > > French units (10^3*k) are the same as English > units with "mille" replacing "thousand", > "milliard" replacing "billion", and "décillion" > replacing "decillion". (Will I be laughed > at if I use "billion" instead of "milliard"?) > > There are a few idiomatic rules: > > a. 71 is "soixante et onze" but 72 is > "soixante-douze", 73 is "soixante-treis", etc. > (Will I be laughed at if I say "soixante-onze"?) > > b. 10,000 is "dix-millièmes" even though > 9,000 is "neuf mille" and 11,000 is "onze mille". > (Will I be laughed at if I say "dix mille"?) > > c. Numbers between 100 and 199 omit the > leading "un". Thus 175 is "cent soixante-quinze" > but 275 is "deux cents soixante-quinze". > > d. Likewise, numbers between 1000 and 1999 omit > the leading "un". > > e. After "million", "milliard" ("billion"), or > "trillion", there is a "de" before the trailing > words. Thus, 1,004,224,000 is "un milliard de > quatre millions de deux cents vingt-quatre mille". > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > -- In the begining there was nothing, and it exploded. -- Terry Pratchett, (on the big bang theory) www.quotator.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
