Number to Words
Convert a numeric to a string with the English name of the number value (GB/IN/US).
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Cite As
Stephen23 (2026). Number to Words (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/47221-number-to-words), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .
Acknowledgements
Inspired by: text2speech - tts, num2english, text-to-speech, Variable Precision Integer Arithmetic, Number to Scientific Prefix, Text2Speech for Matlab using unofficial google service, Customizable Natural-Order Sort, Numeric to Ordinal-String, Natural-Order Row Sort, Natural-Order Filename Sort, Convert number to words, Words to Number
Inspired: Words to Number, Round to Electronic Component Values, Scientific Prefix to Number, Number to Scientific Prefix, Customizable Natural-Order Sort, Numeric to Ordinal-String, Natural-Order Row Sort, Natural-Order Filename Sort, Interactive Regular Expression Tool
General Information
- Version 4.1.9 (52.4 KB)
MATLAB Release Compatibility
- Compatible with R2009b and later releases
Platform Compatibility
- Windows
- macOS
- Linux
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| 4.1.9 | * Add "percent" type.
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| 4.1.8 | * Ensure test function runs on MATLAB Online |
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| 4.1.7 | * convert test function to class. |
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| 4.1.6 | * Add testcases. |
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| 4.1.5 | * Documentation improvements.
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| 4.1.4 | * Documentation improvements. |
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| 4.1.3 | * FEX crashed while uploading the previous version... 2nd attempt. |
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| 4.1.2 | * Add more testcases
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| 4.1.1 | * option parsing improvements.
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| 4.1.0 | * Faster option parsing.
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| 4.0.1 | * Improve option parsing. |
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| 4.0.0 | * Major code refactoring.
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| 3.6.2 | * Update description. |
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| 3.6.1 | * Revise title and summary |
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| 3.6.0 | * Accepts string or char vector input arguments.
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| 3.5.1 | * Add error IDs. |
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| 3.5.0 | * Improve options handling. |
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| 3.4.0 | * Check for cell array optional inputs. |
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| 3.3.0 | * Include HTML _DOC file in zip. |
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| 3.2.0 | * Improve documentation.
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| 3.1.0 | * Update license. |
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| 3.0.0 | * Add 'india' number scale (lakh and crore).
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| 2.2.0 | * Simplify cell array creation. |
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| 2.1.0 | * Fix bug in myriad parsing (if >1 highest level multiplier).
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| 2.0.0 | * Add a new <scale> option <myriad> (Knuth's -yllion).
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| 1.9.0 | * More robust handling of some edge cases: zero, NaN, Inf.
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| 1.8.0 | - Minor edit in blurb. |
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| 1.7.0 | - Minor edit to FEX blurb. |
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| 1.6.0 | * Add money/cheque number type.
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| 1.5.0 | - I accidentally uploaded an older version. This version matches the online description :) |
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| 1.4.0 | * comma control option.
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| 1.3.0 | - Downloadable as toolbox |
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| 1.2.0 | - Fix bug for ordinals 'first' and 'second'.
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| 1.1.0 | - Improve decimal fraction handling.
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| 1.0.0 |
