format_readable_quantity¶

format_readable_quantity(value)

Description¶

Return a human-readable string representation of a large number. Converts large integers into compact format with K, M, B suffixes (e.g. 8000000 → 8.0M, 67000 → 67.0K).

Usage¶

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Call format_readable_quantity directly

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format_readable_quantity function is deployed in 39 public datasets for all of the 39 BigQuery regions.
It can be called by anyone. Just copy / paste examples below in your BigQuery console. It just works!
(You need to use the dataset in the same region as your datasets otherwise you may have a function not found error)

Public BigFunctions Datasets

Region	Dataset
`eu`	`bigfunctions.eu`
`us`	`bigfunctions.us`
`europe-west1`	`bigfunctions.europe_west1`
`asia-east1`	`bigfunctions.asia_east1`
...	...

Deploy format_readable_quantity in your project

Why deploy?

You may prefer to deploy format_readable_quantity in your own project to build and manage your own catalog of functions.
This is particularly useful if you want to create private functions (for example calling your internal APIs).
Get started by reading the framework page

Deployment

format_readable_quantity function can be deployed with:

pip install bigfunctions
bigfun get format_readable_quantity
bigfun deploy format_readable_quantity

Examples¶

1. millions

EUUSeurope-west1

select bigfunctions.eu.format_readable_quantity(8000000)

select bigfunctions.us.format_readable_quantity(8000000)

select bigfunctions.europe_west1.format_readable_quantity(8000000)

+-------------------+
| readable_quantity |
+-------------------+
| 8.0M              |
+-------------------+

2. thousands

EUUSeurope-west1

select bigfunctions.eu.format_readable_quantity(67000)

select bigfunctions.us.format_readable_quantity(67000)

select bigfunctions.europe_west1.format_readable_quantity(67000)

+-------------------+
| readable_quantity |
+-------------------+
| 67.0K             |
+-------------------+

3. billions

EUUSeurope-west1

select bigfunctions.eu.format_readable_quantity(2500000000)

select bigfunctions.us.format_readable_quantity(2500000000)

select bigfunctions.europe_west1.format_readable_quantity(2500000000)

+-------------------+
| readable_quantity |
+-------------------+
| 2.5B              |
+-------------------+

4. small number (no suffix)

EUUSeurope-west1

select bigfunctions.eu.format_readable_quantity(500.35)

select bigfunctions.us.format_readable_quantity(500.35)

select bigfunctions.europe_west1.format_readable_quantity(500.35)

+-------------------+
| readable_quantity |
+-------------------+
| 500.4             |
+-------------------+

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