[TIPS] Convert Your Numbers To Human Readable Format

Sometimes your code produce a large numbers which is hard for user to read it. For example 17753392783 bytes or 18293753038 unit. For human eyes, it is easier to get 17MB or 1 million rather than lot of numbers.

I write this as quick tips for you, in case you want to convert your data to human readable format. I do this in PHP, for other programming language you can get the algorithm and convert it to your own language:

function convert($numbers)
{
   $readable = array("",  "thousands", "millions", "billions");
   $index=0;
   while($numbers > 1000){
      $numbers /= 1000;
      $index++;
   }
   return("".round($numbers, 2)." ".$readable [$index]);
}

Usage:

echo convert(199000000);
// Will show 199.00 millions

Thank you for read this article. Good luck and have a nice day.