Format a number as 2.5K if a thousand or more, oth

Question

I need to show a currency value in the format of 1K of equal to one thousand, or 1.1K, 1.2K, 1.9K etc, if its not an even thousands, otherwise if under a thousand, display normal 500, 100, 250 etc, using javascript to format the number?

Answer 1

/**
 * Shorten number to thousands, millions, billions, etc.
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix
 *
 * @param {number} num Number to shorten.
 * @param {number} [digits=0] The number of digits to appear after the decimal point.
 * @returns {string|number}
 *
 * @example
 * // returns '12.5k'
 * shortenLargeNumber(12543, 1)
 *
 * @example
 * // returns '-13k'
 * shortenLargeNumber(-12567)
 *
 * @example
 * // returns '51M'
 * shortenLargeNumber(51000000)
 *
 * @example
 * // returns 651
 * shortenLargeNumber(651)
 *
 * @example
 * // returns 0.12345
 * shortenLargeNumber(0.12345)
 */
function shortenLargeNumber(num, digits) {
    var units = ['k', 'M', 'G', 'T', 'P', 'E', 'Z', 'Y'],
        decimal;

    for(var i=units.length-1; i>=0; i--) {
        decimal = Math.pow(1000, i+1);

        if(num <= -decimal || num >= decimal) {
            return +(num / decimal).toFixed(digits) + units[i];
        }
    }

    return num;
}

Thx @Cos for comment, I removed Math.round10 dependency.