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InWords is developed or distributed by Canadian Mind Products and is licensed as shareware. Java code to converts number to words in any of 15 languagues. Shows you how to count in any of the following languages: Bahasa Indonesia Binary Decimal Dutch (modern, old and banker's) English (British, North American, Ordinals) Esperanto French German Hexadecimal Icelandic Japanese Martian Metric Metric Prefixes (grams) Norwegian Octal Polish RAM (bytes) Roman Numerals Swedish Swiss French Tagalog You can enter a number and it spells it out in words: e.g. -12345 to "minus twelve thousand three hundred forty-five" The classes it uses for conversion can be easily cannibalised for your own applications, e.g. writing cheques out in words. for example: String numStr = BritishEnglish.inWords(-1234); will generate the string: "minus one thousand two hundred four" handles longs up to Long.MAX_VALUE, namely: 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 Useful to learn to count in a foreign language. The InWords package classes are also useful for cheque writing or legal documents. You can run a batch test of any language with java com.mindprod.inwords.Polish where Polish is the name of the class handling the language you want to test. You can also run it as an Applet or a standalone GUI application. To install, Extract the zip download with Winzip, available from http://www.winzip.com (or similar unzip utility) into any directory you please, often C:\ -- ticking off the "user folder names" option. To run as an application, type: java -jar C:\com\mindprod\inwords\inwords.jar adjusting as necessary to account for where the jar file is....
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