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# Humane Units
Just a few functions for helping humanize times and sizes.
`go get` it as `github.com/dustin/go-humanize`, import it as
`"github.com/dustin/go-humanize"`, use it as `humanize`
See [godoc](https://godoc.org/github.com/dustin/go-humanize) for
complete documentation.
## Sizes
This lets you take numbers like `82854982` and convert them to useful
strings like, `83MB` or `79MiB` (whichever you prefer).
Example:
fmt.Printf("That file is %s.", humanize.Bytes(82854982))
## Times
This lets you take a `time.Time` and spit it out in relative terms.
For example, `12 seconds ago` or `3 days from now`.
Example:
fmt.Printf("This was touched %s", humanize.Time(someTimeInstance))
Thanks to Kyle Lemons for the time implementation from an IRC
conversation one day. It's pretty neat.
## Ordinals
From a [mailing list discussion][odisc] where a user wanted to be able
to label ordinals.
0 -> 0th
1 -> 1st
2 -> 2nd
3 -> 3rd
4 -> 4th
[...]
Example:
fmt.Printf("You're my %s best friend.", humanize.Ordinal(193))
## Commas
Want to shove commas into numbers? Be my guest.
0 -> 0
100 -> 100
1000 -> 1,000
1000000000 -> 1,000,000,000
-100000 -> -100,000
Example:
fmt.Printf("You owe $%s.\n", humanize.Comma(6582491))
## Ftoa
Nicer float64 formatter that removes trailing zeros.
fmt.Printf("%f", 2.24) // 2.240000
fmt.Printf("%s", humanize.Ftoa(2.24)) // 2.24
fmt.Printf("%f", 2.0) // 2.000000
fmt.Printf("%s", humanize.Ftoa(2.0)) // 2
## SI notation
Format numbers with [SI notation][sinotation].
Example:
humanize.SI(0.00000000223, "M") // 2.23nM
[odisc]: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/golang-nuts/l8NhI74jl-4/discussion
[sinotation]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix