Spelling of ordinal numbers
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
Perl 6
This would be pretty simple to implement from scratch; it would be pretty straightforward to do a minor modification of the Number names task code. Much simpler to use 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 even though they all evaluate to the string 123.
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
- Required tests
|<1 2 3 4 5 11 65 100 101 272 23456 800700600500400>,
- Optional tests
|<123 00123.0 1.23e2>;</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 800700600500400 : eight hundred trillion, seven hundred billion, six hundred million, five hundred thousand, four hundredth 123 : one hundred twenty-third 00123.0 : one hundred twenty-third 1.23e2 : 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.