Translating 1000 to 1k in code

[MRKYLO20 (KrispyKachowsMan93)]

Hey there, I am working on my simulator, and the numbers I am using in my game for currency and such go well above 1000. Does anyone know how I can change it 1k?

[EmbatTheHybrid (Embat)]

I would recommend watching this video by @okeanskiy that details how to make an abbreviation system, should be a simpler to understand way to do it

Abbreviate Numbers/Currency! - Roblox (Rounding and Formatting Strings)

[dthecoolest]

And also using Google for even more resources:

How to make a Value like 1000 to 1K into a text ?

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Updated Post: January 2nd, 2021 @VitalWinter made a pretty good suggestion, so I’ve rewritten the code to introduce this and made some additional improvements: local suffixes = {"K", "M", "B", "T", "Q"} -- numbers don't go higher than 'Q' in Lua. local function toSuffixString(n) local i = math.floor(math.log(n, 1e3)) local v = math.pow(10, i * 3) return ("%.1f"):format(n / v):gsub("%.?0+$", "") .. (suffixes[i] or "") end Then, if you want to convert back: local function fromSuffixString(…