Arvo doesn't have a library for converting atoms to English

[xykj61]

As discussed with @ohAitch in #682, it'd be nice to have a /lib file that provided this utility function of converting Hoon atom digits to their English text values.

For example, something like:

~zod:dojo> /+  to-english
>=
~zod:dojo> (atom:to-english 42)
"forty-two"

[ohAitch]

~clearly we should have a new @en atom format~

[xykj61]

Addition: It'd be a fun feature if this worked for arbitrarily large atoms, i.e.:

~zod:dojo> /+  to-english
>=
~zod:dojo> (atom:to-english 18.446.744.073.709.551.616)
"eighteen quintillion, four hundred and forty-six quadrillion, seven hundred and forty-four trillion, seventy-three billion, seven hundred and nine million, five hundred and fifty-one thousand, six hundred, and sixteen"

[ohAitch]

I was thinking full https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_large_numbers yeah, it's not that much more code

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 3:46 PM, Keaton Dunsford notifications@github.com wrote:

Addition: It'd be a fun feature if this worked for arbitrarily large atoms, i.e.:

~zod:dojo> /+ to-english

= ~zod:dojo> (atom:to-english 18.446.744.073.709.551.616) "eighteen quintillion, four hundred and forty-six quadrillion, seven hundred and forty-four trillion, seventy-three billion, seven hundred and nine million, five hundred and fifty-one thousand, six hundred, and sixteen"

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[cgyarvin]

If my plane crashes and this goes into hoon.hoon, my angry ghost will haunt all your repos until the end of time.

But there is a place in %clay for stuff like this. There must be -- although the filesystem ontology still needs some work...

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 3:50 PM, Anton Dyudin notifications@github.com wrote:

I was thinking full https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_large_numbers yeah, it's not that much more code

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Addition: It'd be a fun feature if this worked for arbitrarily large atoms, i.e.:

~zod:dojo> /+ to-english

= ~zod:dojo> (atom:to-english 18.446.744.073.709.551.616) "eighteen quintillion, four hundred and forty-six quadrillion, seven hundred and forty-four trillion, seventy-three billion, seven hundred and nine million, five hundred and fifty-one thousand, six hundred, and sixteen"

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[Fang-]

hoon.hoon %clay

I'm not sure how this would go anywhere but zuse (or maybe a /lib if we're super opposed to expanding the stdlib for some reason).

[ohAitch]

I'd just port https://www.npmjs.com/package/number-to-words into lib/number-to-words.hoon, or like wherever userlib:zuse ends up.

[joemfb]

resolved by #1053