On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 09:42:12PM -0500, Brian Finney wrote:
> generally speaking when you look a number and convert it into text you go through
> some simble steps
>
> say we start with this number
> 123,456,789
>
> ...
>
> then we convert to words
>
>(((one*hundred)+(twenty+three))*million)+(((four*hundred)+(fifty+six))*thousand)+((seven*hundred)+(eighty+nine))
>
> now we replace math with spaces except the + between the tens and ones producing
>
> one hundred twenty-three million four hundred fifty-six thousand seven hundred
> eighty-nine
You are making the common mistake of assuming that your dialect of
English is correct for all English speakers. It most obviously isn't.
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