Integer to English Words

Convert a non-negative integer to its english words representation. Given input is guaranteed to be less than 231 - 1.

For example,

123 -> "One Hundred Twenty Three"
12345 -> "Twelve Thousand Three Hundred Forty Five"
1234567 -> "One Million Two Hundred Thirty Four Thousand Five Hundred Sixty Seven"

public class Solution {
	private final String[] lessThan20 = { "", "One", "Two", "Three", "Four", "Five", "Six", "Seven", "Eight", "Nine",
			"Ten", "Eleven", "Twelve", "Thirteen", "Fourteen", "Fifteen", "Sixteen", "Seventeen", "Eighteen",
			"Nineteen" };
	private final String[] tens = { "", "Ten", "Twenty", "Thirty", "Forty", "Fifty", "Sixty", "Seventy", "Eighty",
			"Ninety" };
	private final String[] thousands = { "", "Thousand", "Million", "Billion" };

	public String numberToWords(int num) {
		if (num == 0)
			return "Zero";
		int i = 0;
		String words = "";

		while (num > 0) {
			if (num % 1000 != 0)
				words = helper(num % 1000) + thousands[i] + " " + words;
			num /= 1000;
			i++;
		}

		return words.trim();
	}

	private String helper(int num) {
		if (num == 0)
			return "";
		else if (num < 20)
			return lessThan20[num] + " ";
		else if (num < 100)
			return tens[num / 10] + " " + helper(num % 10);
		else
			return lessThan20[num / 100] + " Hundred " + helper(num % 100);
	}
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		Solution solution = new Solution();
		String res = solution.numberToWords(1234567);
		System.out.println(res);
	}
}