NAME

Nums2Words - compute English verbage from numerical values

SYNOPSIS

use Nums2Words;

$Verbage = &num2word($Number);

$Verbage = &num2word_ordinal($Number);

$Verbage = &num2word_short_ordinal($Number);

$Verbage = &num2usdollars($Number);

DESCRIPTION

To the best of my knowledge, this code has the potential for generating US English verbage representative of every real value from negative infinity to positive infinity if the module's private variables @Classifications and @Categories are filled appropriately. This module generates verbage based on the thousands system.

See http://www.quinion.demon.co.uk/words/numbers.htm for details of the thousands system versus millions system of linguistically representing large numbers.

Copyright (C) 1996-1998, Lester H. Hightower, Jr. hightowe@united-railway.com hightowe@progressive-comp.com hightowe@railwayex.com

LICENSE

A license is hereby granted for anyone to reuse this Perl module in its original, unaltered form for any purpose, including any commercial software endeavor. However, any modifications to this code or any derivative work (including ports to other languages) must be submitted to the original author, Lester H. Hightower Jr., before the modified software or derivative work is used in any commercial application. All modifications or derivative works must be submitted to the author with 30 days of completion. The author reserves the right to incorporate any modifications or derivative work into future releases of this software.

This software cannot be placed on a CD-ROM or similar media for commercial distribution without the prior approval of the author.