On 12/15/2014 05:49 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 04:25:42PM -0500, Ken G. wrote:
I am sure there is a better way to refine the following lines.
Letting x equal a number from 1 to 28, go through 28 separate 'if'
statements to print a resulting value that equaled the value of x.
<snip>
Of course, as Danny suggested, if you're going to be using this
seriously for arbitrary numbers, you can't possibly list every single
one in advance. What if somebody asks for the name of 9274810276523? In
that case, we need a function that turns a number into an name digit by
digit:
nine trillion, two hundred and seventy-four billion,
eight hundred and ten million, two hundred and
seventy-six thousand, five hundred and twenty-three
That's using the American interpretation for billion and trillion, not
the British one.
Doing this makes a nice little programming exercise, so I will leave it
to you :-)
"one, two, three, many"
We only need four values, in some societies... ;-)
--
DaveA
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