Number as Words

Posted by acushla on November 17, 2010 at 9:21pm

Hi,

I have written a module that adds a cck number field formatter that shows the number in words.

Ex. 123456 is shown as One Hundred and Twenty-Three Thousand Four Hundred and Fifty-Six.

Do you think it will be a good idea to contribute this module?

Thanks in advance,
Rajat

Comments

Old code I made

Posted by mikeytown2 on November 17, 2010 at 9:58pm

Here's an old issue I made in regards to this
http://drupal.org/node/331700#comment-1179255

Got the core logic from here
http://www.roscripts.com/snippets/show/53

I would say contribute it but look into including other formatters as well

I'd find it useful. But it

Posted by no2e on November 18, 2010 at 11:06am

I'd find it useful.

But it should be possible to display both, the number and the number in words. Like:
123456 (One Hundred and Twenty-Three Thousand Four Hundred and Fifty-Six)

Thanks so much

Posted by acushla on November 22, 2010 at 6:35am

Thanks so much Mike and no2e. :-)
Looking forward to contribute the module with configuration option to include no2e's suggestion.

One Hundred and Twenty-Three

Posted by Garrett Albright on November 23, 2010 at 6:14am

One Hundred and Twenty-Three Thousand Four Hundred and Fifty-Six

English major alert! Technically speaking, both of the "and"s in this are incorrect. "And" should only be used to separate the fraction part of the number (if any) from the whole number. So both of these would be correct:

One hundred twenty-three thousand four hundred fifty-six

One hundred twenty-three thousand four hundred fifty-six and seven eighths

But either way, though a module like this could be nifty, I think it would only really be practical on smaller numbers than this. "123,456" is much easier to read than "One hundred twenty-three thousand four hundred fifty-six."

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US English or UK English?

Posted by fonant on November 23, 2010 at 9:50am

The "and"s are correct, and expected, in UK English, as opposed to American English :)

We would say "One hundred and twenty-three thousand, four hundred and fifty-six" here. We think that the American way of omitting the "and"s sounds very odd ;)

We'd probably say "One hundred and twenty-three thousand, four hundred and fifty-six, and seven eighths" too, although this sort of number is very unlikely to appear in real life.