From ebd856ad7f9be363073598af45a200d448cef9c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon Green <mail@simon.green>
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2022 18:46:24 +1000
Subject: sgreen solutions to challenge 179

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 challenge-179/sgreen/python/ch-1.py | 77 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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 create mode 100755 challenge-179/sgreen/python/ch-1.py

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diff --git a/challenge-179/sgreen/python/ch-1.py b/challenge-179/sgreen/python/ch-1.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+import sys
+
+
+def main(s):
+    n = int(s)
+    if n >= 10 ** 12:
+        raise ValueError('Number too large')
+
+    numbers = [None, 'one', 'two', 'three', 'four', 'five', 'six', 'seven', 'eight', 'nine', 'ten',
+               'eleven', 'twelve', 'thirteen', 'fourteen', 'fifteen', 'sixteen', 'seventeen', 'eighteen', 'nineteen']
+    tens = [None, None, 'twenty', 'thirty', 'fourty',
+            'fifty', 'sixty', 'seventy', 'eighty', 'ninety']
+    ordinal = [None, 'first', 'second', 'third', 'fourth', 'fifth', 'sixth', 'seventh', 'eighth', 'ninth', 'tenth',
+               'eleventh', 'twelfth', 'thirteenth', 'fourteenth', 'fifteenth', 'sixteenth', 'seventeenth', 'eighteenth', 'nineteenth']
+    thousands = [None, 'thousand', 'million', 'billion']
+
+    # Split the string into blocks of three
+    blocks = []
+    while len(s) > 3:
+        # Take off the last three numbers
+        blocks.append(int(s[-3:]))
+        s = s[:-3]
+    blocks.append(int(s))
+
+    words = []
+    for count, value in enumerate(blocks):
+        w = ''
+
+        # Maybe this block has no numbers
+        if value == 0:
+            continue
+
+        # Deal with the hundreds first
+        if value >= 100:
+            w = numbers[int(value/100)] + ' hundred'
+
+            if value % 100 == 0:
+                # Deal with numbers evenly divisable by 100
+                if count > 0:
+                    w += ' ' + thousands[count]
+                words.insert(0, w)
+                continue
+
+            w += ' and '
+            value = value % 100
+
+        # Then the tens
+        if value >= 20:
+            w += tens[int(value/10)] + ' '
+            value = value % 10
+            if value == 0 and count == 0:
+                # We need to add the ordinal word here
+                w = w[:-2] + 'ieth'
+
+        # And then the number
+        if value != 0:
+            t = ordinal if count == 0 else numbers
+            w += t[value]
+
+        # And maybe the thousandth word
+        if count > 0:
+            w += ' ' + thousands[count]
+
+        words.insert(0, str(w))
+
+    # Edge case, if the number is evenly divisible by 100, add 'th' to the last value
+    if int(n) % 100 == 0:
+        words[-1] += 'th'
+
+    # Print the ordinal number
+    print(*words, sep=' ')
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main(sys.argv[1])
-- 
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