Comments on: humanize

By: Brenton Fletcher

Brenton Fletcher — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:23:13 +0000

And by tomorrow I meant soon – still a work on progress.

By: Radar

Radar — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:12:55 +0000

Just an update: bench.rb now runs at 0.4 sec on Ruby 1.9, 0.7 on Ruby 1.8

By: Brenton Fletcher

Brenton Fletcher — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:36:14 +0000

You have raised a challenge that shall be met… I’ll post my response tomorrow!

By: Radar

Radar — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:50:58 +0000

@ Mark: the number was massacred when I tried putting in the , separators. Now it is correct.

By: Radar

Radar — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:44:43 +0000

It works with numbers after the decimal place, “point one four five” for any number ending in .145.

By: Dr Nic

Dr Nic — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:46:38 +0000

How does it go with the numbers after the decimal place?

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:54:17 +0000

Just a suggestion before this post gets cached in Google – I think if you look at the digits below 10^15 and compare them to the text version, you’ll notice some, er, irregularities, shall we say?

“…one hundred and twelve quadrillion, one hundred and seventy six trillion, five hundred and fourteen billion, three hundred and twenty one million, seven thousand three hundred and ten” should lead to a number that terminates with “…,112,176,514,321,007,310″, which isn’t the number you’ve posted. That number also appears to be 156 digits in size; not sure if the “50 digits” restriction is correct from your post.

By: Bodaniel Jeanes

Bodaniel Jeanes — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:56:53 +0000

Oh, and yes, that is a challenge.

By: Bodaniel Jeanes

Bodaniel Jeanes — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:56:34 +0000

Now you just need it to have compatibility modes to contend with the difference between US, UK, and EU naming =P