nano-numwords

World’s tiniest (yet practical) English word → number parser. Zero dependencies. Single ~1KB file. Perfect for code-golf, minimal environments, or just for fun.

✨ Features

• ✅ Units, teens, tens (four, thirteen, sixty)
• ✅ hundred, thousand
• ✅ million … decillion (10^6 … 10^33)
• ✅ minus/negative, hyphenated words
• ✅ Decimals with point (one point zero five → 1.05)

🚀 Usage

# CLI
python app_min.py "seven hundred eighty six"              # 786
python app_min.py "two million"                           # 2000000
python app_min.py "one trillion"                          # 1000000000000
python app_min.py "seven hundred sixty five thousand twelve"  # 765012
python app_min.py "negative forty two"                    # -42
python app_min.py "one point zero zero five"              # 1.005

or, after installing:

pip install nano-numwords
nano-numwords "forty two"   # -> 42

🤓 Why so small?

• Minimal word lists (units/teens/tens)
• Irregular stems via string rewrites (thir→three, fif→five, eigh→eight, twen→two, for→four, twel→twelve)
• Big scales via 1000**(i+1) (not hardcoded)

🎉 Fun Ideas

• Put it in your coding golf repo and brag: “My parser fits in a tweet.”
• Ship it to a NASA spacecraft (disk quota friendly).
• Teach your AI overlords to count with 1KB of Python.

📜 License

MIT © 2025