What is Short Number
Short Number is a lightweight, multilingual PHP library for formatting numbers into short, human-readable, compact abbreviations. It can format large numbers into short strings like 1k, 1m, 1b, 1t, 1q depending on the language and the number.
Advantages of Short Number
Short Number is focused on providing the best performance and the most accurate number formatting. Here are some of the advantages of using Short Number:
🚀 Performs supe- fast
Is written in a way to make the number parsing as fast as possible
🌍 Multilingual support
Supports multiple languages and can format numbers in different languages
📦 Lightweight
Has no external dependencies and is very lightweight
🪶 Low memory usage
Loads only needed data into memory when parsing the input
🛠 Easy to use
Has a simple and easy-to-use API
Largest Supported Number
The largest number that can be formatted by the Short Number library is 999 quadrillions 999,999,999,999,999,999 or 9.999 × 10¹⁷.
Supported Languages
| Language | Code | Thousand | Million | Billion | Trillion | Quadrillion | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇬🇧 | English | en | 1k | 1m | 1b | 1t | 1q |
| 🇷🇺 | Russian | ru | 1тыс | 1млн | 1млд | 1трн | 1квадр |
| 🇺🇦 | Ukrainian | uk | 1тис | 1млн | 1млд | 1трн | 1квадр |
| 🇨🇳 | Chinese | zh | 千 | 100万 | 10亿 | 兆 | 京 |
| 🇯🇵 | Japanese | ja | 千 | 100万 | 10億 | 兆 | 京 |
Different Counting Systems
Large numbers in languages like Chinese, Japanese, Korean are often abbreviated using their unique counting system, based on units of 1,0000 and 1,0000,0000 instead of 10,000 and 100,000,000. This library considers this when formatting numbers and displays them in the correct format.