It would be nice to have sample expected output for all these commands, especially for those of us not using UNIX on a regular basis. Maybe you could convince someone who wants to help the project but can't think of anything to implement that they could write some tests instead. (OK, maybe not.)
This version doesn't do scientific notation. Maybe when my tuits get
rounder...
To test:
>perl -MTest::Harness -e "runtests('number.t')"
-Amir Karger
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number_data
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