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This is an application that accepts a number and prints it as words - with capability to handle both positive and negative numbers (including whole numbers and decimals)

• minimum long number -9223372036854775807
• maximum long number 9223372036854775807

• Java 8
• Terminal

Carry out the following steps from a Terminal to build the project

• Change directory to the project root

  cd numwords
  

• From the project root, run the following command

  ./gradlew clean build
  

• A jar file named numwords.jar will be generated into the numwords/build/libs directory.

Run the following command to execute and view unit test results

./gradlew clean test

Flags: The program uses one REQUIRED flag

Copy the generated jar file to any preferred location and from that location, run a command patterned as follows;

Examples:

• print 2048 in words

  java -jar numwords.jar -n=2067
  

  OR

  java -jar numwords.jar --num=2067
  

• print -4096 in words

  java -jar numwords.jar -n=-4096
  

  OR

  java -jar numwords.jar --num=-4096
  

java -jar numwords.jar -h