From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@...>
Date: 2000-12-21T21:51:43+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7858] Re: Next amusing problem: talking integers (was Re: Code sample for improvement)

"Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> #!/usr/local/bin/ruby
> module NumReader
>     module English
>         NEGATIVE = "negative"
>         n = %w(zero one two three four five six seven eight nine
>           ten eleven twelve thirteen)
>         NUMBERS = n +
>           (4 .. 9).collect {|num| n[num] + "teen"}
>         TENS = [nil, nil] + %w(twenty thirty forty fifty sixty seventy eighty
>           ninety)
>         HUNDRED = "hundred" 
>         ORDERS_OF_3 = [""] + %w(thousand million billion trillion zillion
								    ---^---
I don't know how that cropped up in there... if you remove it, the program 
works a bit better ;)


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