shortscale 0.1.0

English conversion from number to string

[WIP] shortscale

Python module to convert numbers into English words.

This is the Python port of the shortscale function, originally written in JavaScript and Rust, documented here. There is a also a Go version.

The short scale, has different words for each power of 1000.

This implementation expresses numbers from zero to thousands, millions, billions, trillions, and quadrillions, up to 999_999_999_999_999_999.

Function

def shortscale(num: int) -> str

Example

import shortscale

// ==> four hundred and twenty billion nine hundred and ninety nine thousand and fifteen
print(shortscale.shortscale(420_000_999_015))

After installing this module, the function can also be called from the commnd line e.g.

shortscale 420_000_999_015

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