How to make number abbreviations?

[pasje1312]

So I tried making number abriviations but idk how to use them these are the tw function I used:

function abbreviateNumber(number)
	local roundDown = tostring(math.floor(number))
	return string.sub(roundDown, 1, ((#roundDown - 1) % 3) + 1) .. ({"", "", "", "B", "T", "QA", "QI", "SX", "SP", "OC", "NO", "DC", "UD", "DD", "TD", "QAD", "QID", "SXD", "SPD", "OCD", "NOD", "VG", "UVG"})[math.floor((#roundDown - 1) / 3) + 1]
end

function comma_value(amount)
	local formatted = amount
	while true do  
		formatted, k = string.gsub(formatted, "^(-?%d+)(%d%d%d)", '%1,%2')
		if (k==0) then
			break
		end
	end
	return formatted
end

What I want to create is that the number will have commas like this 45,432,765 until 1 billion then I want it to be 1B or 1b.

Can someone please help me with it?

[LimitedEffect]

How high can “number” be? Up to a trillion or beyond that?

[pasje1312]

idk forever it doesnt matter to me

[LimitedEffect]

I don’t think there is an automatic format for this so you have to do it manually. The quickest way I found was like so:

function abbreviateNumber(number)
	local digitsPassedBil = number / 1000000000
	local suffix = ""
	if digitsPassedBil >= 1 then
		suffix = "B"
	end	
	if digitsPassedBil >= 1000 then
		digitsPassedBil /= 1000
		suffix = "T"
	end
	if digitsPassedBil >= 1000 then
		digitsPassedBil /= 1000
		suffix = "q"
	end
	print(tostring(digitsPassedBil)..suffix)
	return tostring(digitsPassedBil)..suffix
end

Add if statements for more suffixes and only change the suffix in the if statement.

[pasje1312]

It is not working it givees the number something like it devides the number by 100 or 1000

[Tylerisawsome113 (Tyler)]

function formatNumber(n)
    if n >= 10^6 then
        return string.format("%.2fm", n / 10^6)
    elseif n >= 10^3 then
        return string.format("%.2fk", n / 10^3)
    else
        return tostring(n)
    end
end

You have to add more values as you go higher. Ensure it’s ordered from highest to lowest. This example uses millions and thousands, with 2 decimal points.