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 # Home
 
+This is a minimal package for a pure Julia implementation of converting numbers in their Arabic form to numbers in their language form. The process of **spelling out** a number has also been referred to as **set full out**, to write out in **long hand**, and — as a great mind once suggested — to **transnumerate**.
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 ## Contents
 ```@contents
 ```