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Asked: 2026-05-10T13:47:25+00:00

Here’s a coding problem for those that like this kind of thing. Let’s see

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Here’s a coding problem for those that like this kind of thing. Let’s see your implementations (in your language of choice, of course) of a function which returns a human readable String representation of a specified Integer. For example:

  • humanReadable(1) returns ‘one’.
  • humanReadable(53) returns ‘fifty-three’.
  • humanReadable(723603) returns ‘seven hundred and twenty-three thousand, six hundred and three’.
  • humanReadable(1456376562) returns ‘one billion, four hundred and fifty-six million, three hundred and seventy-six thousand, five hundred and sixty-two’.

Bonus points for particularly clever/elegant solutions!

It might seem like a pointless exercise, but there are number of real world applications for this kind of algorithm (although supporting numbers as high as a billion may be overkill 🙂

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  1. There was already a question about this: Convert integers to written numbers

    The answer is for C#, but I think you can figure it out.

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