NAME

Convert::Number::Ethiopic - Convert Between Western and Ethiopic Numeral Systems

SYNOPSIS

 #
 #  instantiate with a Western or Ethiopic number (in UTF-8)
 #
 my $n = new Convert::Number::Ethiopic( 12345 );
 my $etNumber = $n->convert;

 $n->number ( 54321 );    # reset number handle
 print $n->convert, "\n";

 print "2002 => ", $n->convert ( 2002 ), "\n";  # convert new number

DESCRIPTION

Implementation of the Ilf-Radix numeral conversion algorithm entirely in Perl. Use to convert between Western and Ethiopic numeral systems.

See: http://www.ethiopic.org/Numerals/

REQUIRES

The package is known to work on Perl 5.6.1 and 5.8.0 but has not been tested on other versions of Perl by the author.

COPYRIGHT

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

BUGS

None presently known.

AUTHOR

Daniel Yacob, dyacob@cpan.org

SEE ALSO

Convert::Number::Coptic Convert::Digits

Included with this package:

  examples/numbers.pl