Numerals

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The same number can be written more than one way: 2024, “two thousand and twenty-four”, MMXXIV, or 2024th. This page converts between the plain figure and those spellings, useful for a heading, a contract, a clause number, or just reading a Roman numeral off a monument.

In words

as words spells a number out in full, British style, with the “and” of “one hundred and five”.

1234 as words // one thousand two hundred and thirty-four
105 as words // one hundred and five
1000000 as words // one million

A negative number is spelled with “minus”, and a decimal is read digit by digit after “point” (3.5 is “three point five”).

As an ordinal

as ordinal gives the position form, the one with the little suffix, and gets the awkward cases right (11th, not 11st).

3 as ordinal // 3rd
22 as ordinal // 22nd
11 as ordinal // 11th

Roman numerals

as roman writes a number in Roman numerals, and from roman reads one back. The reverse takes the numeral in "quotation marks", because the Roman letters M C D L X V I are already used for units and names in the language (V is the volt, C is a temperature), so a bare MMXXIV would be ambiguous.

2024 as roman // MMXXIV
1994 as roman // MCMXCIV
"MMXXIV" from roman // 2,024

Roman numerals cover the classic range 1 to 3999. A number outside that, or a string that is not a valid Roman numeral ("IIII", "IC"), is reported as an error rather than guessed at.