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== File format ==

If you want to reorganize sections here, note that the two lines <code>local builtin_units</code> and <code>local builtin_units_long_scale</code> require a blank line after them.  The section [[Long and short scales|long scale]], with all the units like "billions" and "trillions", is under the latter, near the bottom of the page. All the rest of the units are in the former.

The file format is two Lua strings and a return statement with them in it: a string in quotes [=[ ... builtin_units ... ]=], and another string in quotes [=[ ... builtin_units_long_scale ... ]=].  The first string, builtin_units, is short-scale, second string is long scale.  The reason there are two strings is because of the difference between British and US terms surrounding "billion", "billionth", etc.

For each string there must be a blank line before the first line of the string and after the last line of the string.  In other words the first two and last two characters of each string must be newlines.

There is one record per line, starting in first column, having 2-4 fields.  The field separator is two or more spaces.  Between first and second fields, use two or more spaces.  Between all other fields, use two or more spaces, or one or more tabs.  Entries without two spaces in them are ignored.