Hello all, I posted about my inability to deal with large integers.
Been reading Tom Swan and still can't handle it, yet.
But I found a way to do the same thing with strings and columns.
This program reads an integer from the commandline and outputs
the number spelled in english.
section 1 of 1 of file spellnum.zip  
begin 644 spellnum.zip
M4$L#!!0``@`(`(`#W2*H8NW%X04``#T6```,````4U!%3$Q.54TN05--M5A+
M;]LX$+X'R'\8].(6JW0MNYLF=H'%;E%@#T$OZ:TH"ED:6ZQIT26IV,FO7PY)
M2=3+8BWW[RXO+"P'XLP2Q7BO4)(/_[,0#*!;=3',8_"ROGOTTQM+='E9?
M%?L638>-?"6I<6<)#)OFUFE8_T=5L5:U`B)U(F
MCW[,>M,>'PQC2QHV]1!R*R>VUK5>(R2X^A&"5`'#@%E189'
MD+AA2M.(U&M.-^,%KD#G-7%Y:3LGTK=!*0I4OP>5AW:I9_VWYV^9G;J%3A!R
M-8;1H,IH%N1*0*G0W6M)Z*5F>GS)1OM;M"'@47!&9(PT)[*/T$G,0BOVL#W5
M5@MAHD5EGZ&$0XX%N9E@1G/^/&2\>**..=#I_BH'9V@WL=KL>N6!P:L7U;AT
M;Q(4HG,.\B7=2$1JI(O7AE^8O>G,O\=HVHF_V?&HQ0^@#UCHQS"/GX4AMF^K
M-P:#R(>Y7?0&QNBTLW0UY2>I`].Y!Q%!(329[,2`F1A\_&XWW[.U%\1J9GN(
ML_M+K]9MTJMI8&U0NR+N/CG4
M47V[OCFO77=:,3_1BE-1/*#4=BHZV8Y/\IAA"J-=QTYB6[:W$TMX.FT$A-.F
M#\9_>GP2S+,J.&-JSRGYRY44I6Z-24F643ZLCCU:OF;L6Z^QS$Z\^OG_),C4
M_8G74)N!/$KXB1[EI\()3-JM\CX>?SW[/RCV,Q1EP0KB>11/H\EGH4V$J[\K
MQOZ#>&N0-\-J_?3\^O(BKSN[44^J)CZQ:W[P]&M>BOQB/8W:Q4JJ5B\OF@:2
M'8#R#^G-1Q^$_[0"&)+D%A[!%TV/%4Z/W
M4LW4I\\-4SY+>)4O9D?<99+=`SHM!;:^-F`Q/&"]*4+K;W$(,!@!;1SEU,5R(!V=$]4D)O,K%?$%```]%@``
M#``````````!`"``````````4U!%3$Q.54TN05--4$L%!@`````!``$`.@``
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end
sum -r/size 13642/2273 section (from "begin" to "end")
sum -r/size 58416/1627 entire input file
Kind regards, Barry 
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