Module googology::conway_wechsler [−][src]
Methods for the Conway-Wechsler large number naming system. A proper description of how this system works can be found on this website.
We add to this system just slightly by allowing the user to choose between three different scales. The short scale (thousand, million, billion, trillion, …) is the standard in modern English, while the long scale (thousand, million, milliard, billion, …) is more common in European languages. It is also possible to use a variant of the long scale previously used in the UK before switching to the short scale, where instead of using milliard to refer to the value 10^9, the term “one thousand million” is used instead.
Enums
| Scale | A parameter for Conway-Wechsler functions which indicates how number names change every power of 1000. |
Functions
| full_name | Gives a full length name for a number represented by an arbitrary sequence of digits. |
| power_of_ten | Gives a name for a number representing a power of ten.
This function is equivalent to using |