number(6)

number6

Convert arabic numerals to english

Usage

number [-l] [# ...]

Overview

The number utility prints the English equivalent of the number to the standard output, with each 10^3 magnitude displayed on a separate line. If no argument is specified, number reads lines from the standard input.

The options are as follows:

-l

Display the number on a single line.

Releases

30 releases since FreeBSD 2.0.5-RELEASE; the text changed 13 times.

  1. 2.0.5–2.2.2
  2. 11.0
  3. 11.1
  4. 11.2
  5. 11.3
  6. 11.4
  7. 12.0
  8. 12.1
  9. 12.2
  10. 12.3
  11. 12.4
  12. 13.0–13.2
  13. 13.3–14.5
  14. 15.0–16.0

Bugs

Although number understand fractions, it does not understand exponents.

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.