Spelling of ordinal numbers

Spelling of ordinal numbers is a draft programming task. It is not yet considered ready to be promoted as a complete task, for reasons that should be found in its talk page.

Ordinal numbers   (as used in this Rosetta Code task),   are numbers that describe the   position   of something in a list.

It is this context that ordinal numbers will be used, using an English-spelled name of an ordinal number.

The ordinal numbers are   (at least, one form of them):

  1st  2nd  3rd  4th  5th  6th  7th  ···  99th  100th  ···  1000000000th  ···  etc

sometimes expressed as:

  1st  2nd  3rd  4th  5th  6th  7th  ···  99th  100th  ···  1000000000th  ···

For this task, the following (English-spelled form) will be used:

  first second third fourth fifth sixth seventh ninety-nineth one hundredth one billionth

Furthermore, the American version of numbers will be used here   (as opposed to the British).

2,000,000,000   is two billion,   not   two milliard.

Task

Write a driver and a function (subroutine/routine ···) that returns the English-spelled ordinal version of a specified number   (a positive integer).

Optionally, try to support as many forms of an integer that can be expressed:   123   00123.0   1.23e2   all are forms of the same integer.

Show all output here.

Test cases

Use (at least) the test cases of:

  1  2  3  4  5  11  65  100  101  272  23456  8007006005004003

Related tasks

•   Number names
•   N'th

Perl 6

Works with: Rakudo version 2017.08

This would be pretty simple to implement from scratch; it would be straightforward to do a minor modification of the Number names task code. Much simpler to just use the Lingua::EN::Numbers::Cardinal module from the Perl 6 ecosystem though. It easily handles ordinal numbers even though that is not its primary focus.

We need to be slightly careful of terminology. In Perl 6, 123, 00123.0, & 1.23e2 are not all integers. They are respectively an Int (integer), a Rat (rational number) and a Num (floating point number). For this task it doesn't much matter as the ordinal routine coerces its argument to an Int, but to Perl 6 they are different things. We can further abuse allomorphic types for some somewhat non-intuitive results as well.

It is not really clear what is meant by "Write a driver and a function...". Well, the function part is clear enough; driver not so much. Perhaps this will suffice.

<lang perl6>use Lingua::EN::Numbers::Cardinal;

printf( "\%16s : %s\n", $_, ordinal($_) ) for

1. Required tests

|<1 2 3 4 5 11 65 100 101 272 23456 8007006005004003>,

1. Optional tests

|<123 00123.0 1.23e2 123+0i 0b1111011 0o173 0x7B 861/7>;</lang>

Output:

               1 : first
               2 : second
               3 : third
               4 : fourth
               5 : fifth
              11 : eleventh
              65 : sixty-fifth
             100 : one hundredth
             101 : one hundred first
             272 : two hundred seventy-second
           23456 : twenty-three thousand, four hundred fifty-sixth
8007006005004003 : eight quadrillion, seven trillion, six billion, five million, four thousand third
             123 : one hundred twenty-third
         00123.0 : one hundred twenty-third
          1.23e2 : one hundred twenty-third
          123+0i : one hundred twenty-third
       0b1111011 : one hundred twenty-third
           0o173 : one hundred twenty-third
            0x7B : one hundred twenty-third
           861/7 : one hundred twenty-third

REXX

<lang REXX>/*REXX programs spells out ordinal numbers (in English, using the American system). */ numeric digits 3000 /*just in case the user uses gihugic #s*/ parse arg n /*obtain optional arguments from the CL*/

if n= | n="," then n= 1 2 3 4 5 11 65 100 101 272 23456 8007006005004003

pgmOpts= 'ordinal quiet' /*define options needed for $SPELL#.REX*/

    do j=1  for words(n)                        /*process each of the specified numbers*/
    x=word(n, j)                                /*obtain a number from the input list. */
    os=$spell#(x  pgmOpts)                      /*invoke REXX routine to spell ordinal#*/
    say right(x, max(20, length(x) ) )      ' spelled ordinal number ───► '      os
    end   /*j*/</lang>

output   when using the default inputs:

                   1  spelled ordinal number ───►  first
                   2  spelled ordinal number ───►  second
                   3  spelled ordinal number ───►  third
                   4  spelled ordinal number ───►  fourth
                   5  spelled ordinal number ───►  fifth
                  11  spelled ordinal number ───►  eleventh
                  65  spelled ordinal number ───►  sixty-fifth
                 100  spelled ordinal number ───►  one hundredth
                 101  spelled ordinal number ───►  one hundred first
                 272  spelled ordinal number ───►  two hundred seventy-second
               23456  spelled ordinal number ───►  twenty-three thousand four hundred fifty-sixth
    8007006005004003  spelled ordinal number ───►  eight quadrillion seven trillion six billion five million four thousand third

The   $SPELL#.REX   routine can be found here   ───►   $SPELL#.REX.

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