writing cheques made easy

Posted by Anurag in humour, utilities
Thursday, June 21. 2007

If you issue cheques very often, and wonder how to write that weird amount in words, then lisp may come to your rescue.

CL-USER> (format t "~R" 5374538457834758345)

five quintillion three hundred seventy-four quadrillion five hundred thirty-eight trillion four hundred fifty

-seven billion eight hundred thirty-four million seven hundred fifty-eight thousand three hundred forty-five

NIL

CL-USER>

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Barkha - #1 - 2007-06-21 12:23 - (Reply)

Writing million dollar cheques or receiving them?

kamal - #2 - 2007-11-22 02:15 - (Reply)

LoL... wonder if poor LISP would ever get that kind of formatting
task in the real world, but it sure would boot up the fantasizing
processes across the globe...

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