Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.mixmin.net!border2.nntp.ams2.giganews.com!border4.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border3.nntp.ams.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 02 May 2012 18:41:19 -0500 From: Leif Roar Moldskred Subject: Re: number and words Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer References: <7d4884d6-aebf-436e-8a76-1e2a3bf10c8b@n1g2000vby.googlegroups.com> <26508931.2139.1336000428636.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbcvn7> User-Agent: tin/2.0.0-20110823 ("Ardenistiel") (UNIX) (Linux/3.0.0-17-generic-pae (i686)) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 02 May 2012 18:41:19 -0500 Lines: 14 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-aOlLIkp4fyrBfCXO4Svx4FiFqhTHixxFt8QQtpRoUmZdYcxWULB/C2vln+kOsPqJvWY/wfVIhaCGYI2!+NQd9hgl2dQQwkd9MOsjW5NpFOlgjHs7gHPORoo5RbazNmPt5Zt69JqzTsr37HdccGklyZSXWw== X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1635 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:14173 Lew wrote: > Another approach would be to expand into one language, e.g., > English, then use resource bundles to translate those words into > other languages. I don't know how effective this would be. You'd quickly run into issues with different languages constructing large numbers in different ways. To point out a worst case scenario, there are languages that are duodecimal, i.e. they form numbers in base 12 rather than base 10. -- Leif Roar Moldskred