support short names

[idej]

I think that it will be awesome to support short names as M, kk, MM for million.
What do you think?

[markburns]

Yeah maybe. What would the API for that look like?

[idej]

what about a dictionary with the origin names and shortcuts? Then preprocess string and change shortcuts on origin using regexp?

[markburns]

I don't mean the implementation, I mean the way it is called. It's easy enough to do strings to numbers but I'm not sure how you'd specify the other way round.

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[idej]

Got it. From my point of view, it can be in in_numbers

[idej]

@markburns what do you think?

[markburns]

You haven't really addressed the ambiguity issue

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[idej]

Maybe. But for me string like one mln it is a number as a words.

[markburns]

How do you specify the output? You listed a few variations of the same thing but not how to specify which if any you'd want. Of course the other way is easy.

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[idej]

Sorry. Output is a digit number one mln -> 1_000_000

[markburns]

Right but that's the easy part. It's the other direction that's not clear how to specify

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[idej]

So can add an option like abbreviation that will false by default. When true - use the most popular abbreviation (will be first in the list) instead of the word or use the word if no abbreviation. That's what you mean?