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Eradiani
Title: Moderator/ EvEVault Staff
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Koneg posted:
Eradiani posted:
LOL I'm sure they are looking for someone to make it themselves.. not pass it to a pre-made function 
**scratches head**
I would bet real money this function/library exists for every programming language you care to name, but hey... Have fun re-inventing that wheel if it really makes you happy. 
Well the way it was asked made it sound like it was a lab for a programming course in college (or at the very least you had to assume that there wasn't something out there that already did this). so yeah you sort of have to re-invent the wheel for that sort of thing
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GrymmDAOC
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Registered: 2001-12-6 13:04:16
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Now write it in Intercal!
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Date Posted:
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I thought real programers wrote in assembly.
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Scarne
Title: Capo di Scientifico
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Registered: 2001-7-23 15:24:34
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It's easy since there are some basic patterns.
First, groups the digits of the number into the groups of three as we do with commas when writing the number out. Each group of the is written as "{blah-blah-blah} {billion|million|thousand|[nothing]|etc}" with a separator between groups. This lets you write out numbers as big as you have the names of the groups for.
For the groups of three digits themselves, they break down into "{blah} hundred {blah-blah}". So the hundreds digit is taken care of. Then you just need to do all the special case logic to write out the tens and ones digit for the group.
There are a few other special cases to suss out like skipping groups of "000", but it shouldn't be too bad. 
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RHWarrior
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Registered: 2009-9-30 18:42:12
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I used to be a Perl programmer, then I took a Python to the knee!
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