NUMBER(6)

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✨ NUMBER(6) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Games Manual 💖 — this one's called number and honestly? it's giving translator energy. no cap.

🌸 NAME 🌸

number — convert Arabic numerals to English 🦋

like… you give it 42 and it hands you back the words. iconic behavior fr fr.

💅 SYNOPSIS 💅

number [-l] [number ...]

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

The number utility prints the English equivalent of the number to the standard output, with each 10^3 magnitude displayed on a separate line. ✨

so like, 1000000 isn't gonna come at you as one big blob — it breaks it down per thousand-power, one per line. main character formatting tbh.

If no argument is specified, number reads lines from the standard input. 📥

The options are as follows:

  • -l — Display the number on a single line. one line, no breaks, simple as that 💅

💀 BUGS 💀

Although number understand fractions, it doesn't understand exponents. 😭

bestie it KNOWS fractions but exponents?? not on the syllabus. not today. 🙈

👑 sign-off 👑

that's the whole page, bestie — no crumbs left behind. 🫶 this one shipped from Debian and it's dated March 31, 1994, which is honestly vintage in the most slay way possible. go forth and wordify your numbers 💖🌸✨

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