# shortscale
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Rust lib to convert numbers into English words.
The [short scale](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#Comparison),
has different words for each power of 1000.
This library expresses numbers from zero to thousands,
millions, billions, trillions, and quadrillions, up to 999_999_999_999_999_999.
### Function
```rust
pub fn shortscale(num: u64) -> String
```
### Example
```rust
use shortscale::shortscale;
assert_eq!(
shortscale(420_000_999_015),
"four hundred and twenty billion nine hundred \
and ninety nine thousand and fifteen"
);
```
For the JavaScript version see [jldec/shortscale](https://github.com/jldec/shortscale).
Copyright 2021, Jürgen Leschner - github.com/jldec - MIT license