Thread: converting numbers to words

The Magnitude array simply holds the name of the thousand, million, billion... values. If you have the value 12,325,324,255 you can pass the values in a loop,
first 12 with magnitude 3 (billion)
second 325 with mag of 2 (million)
third 324, mag 1 (thousand)
forth 255 mag 0 (empty value)

The definition could be:

Code:

char *magnitude[] = {"",  // empty for 0-999
                     "thousand",
                     "million",
                     "billion",
                       ...
                    };

Walt

Just a thought - you may need to do a locale check, as in many countries (such as the UK until a few years ago) a billion is a million million, not a thousand million (aka a 'toy' billion).