public class Int2Words { static String[] small = {"one", "two", "three", "four", "five", "six", "seven", "eight", "nine", "ten", "eleven", "twelve", "thirteen", "fourteen", "fifteen", "sixteen", "seventeen", "eighteen", "nineteen"}; static String[] tens = {"twenty", "thirty", "forty", "fifty", "sixty", "seventy", "eighty", "ninety"}; static String[] big = {"thousand", "million", "billion", "trillion"}; public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println(int2Text(900000001)); System.out.println(int2Text(1234567890)); System.out.println(int2Text(-987654321)); System.out.println(int2Text(0)); } public static String int2Text(long number) { long num = 0; String outP = ""; int unit = 0; long tmpLng1 = 0; if (number == 0) { return "zero"; } num = Math.abs(number); for (;;) { tmpLng1 = num % 100; if (tmpLng1 >= 1 && tmpLng1 <= 19) { outP = small[(int) tmpLng1 - 1] + " " + outP; } else if (tmpLng1 >= 20 && tmpLng1 <= 99) { if (tmpLng1 % 10 == 0) { outP = tens[(int) (tmpLng1 / 10) - 2] + " " + outP; } else { outP = tens[(int) (tmpLng1 / 10) - 2] + "-" + small[(int) (tmpLng1 % 10) - 1] + " " + outP; } } tmpLng1 = (num % 1000) / 100; if (tmpLng1 != 0) { outP = small[(int) tmpLng1 - 1] + " hundred " + outP; } num /= 1000; if (num == 0) { break; } tmpLng1 = num % 1000; if (tmpLng1 != 0) { outP = big[unit] + " " + outP; } unit++; } if (number < 0) { outP = "negative " + outP; } return outP.trim(); } }