From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2000-12-20T22:39:09+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7759] Next amusing problem: talking integers (was Re: Code sample for improvement)

On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Stephen White wrote:

> Hopefully this code dissection, rewriting and optimisation becomes a
> regular feature. Anyone else want to post the next amusing problem
> for us to work on? :)

Just wait til the online cookbook is up and running :-)

Meanwhile -- well, am I allowed to do the cowardly thing, and
pose this as a puzzle, without actually having done it yet?  I did
do it in Perl, but am curious to see ideas for it in Ruby.

Namely......

Input:   123456
Output:  "one-hundred twenty-three thousand four-hundred fifty-six"

etc.  

Solutions in other languages welcome too.


David

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