Re: Updating NumberPadding?
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- Subject: [mg84349] Re: Updating NumberPadding?
- From: Albert Retey <awnl at arcor.net>
- Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:02:09 -0500 (EST)
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Kevin J. McCann wrote:
> Carl,
>
> If you raise Pi to zero or a negative power of ten, your last form below
> does not work correctly, i.e. N[Pi]10^-1 produces 0.31x10.
>
> I agree with David that it would be REALLY nice if WRI made it easier
> for us to produce nice columnar data. I know it is not easy, as the
> examples below show. I know from my FORTRAN days that a lot of CPU
> cycles were used on formatted input and output. Still, it would be nice.
Isn't this better addressed with using Grid and an explicit setting for
Alignment? The following gives me something that looks good enough for me:
Style[
Grid[{
{NumberForm[1000*N@Pi, {5, 2}]},
{NumberForm[N@Pi, {5, 2}]},
{NumberForm[N[Pi] 10^-1, {5, 2}]}
},
Alignment -> {"."}
],
FontFamily -> "Helvetica"
]
albert
- References:
- Updating NumberPadding?
- From: "David Park" <djmpark@comcast.net>
- Updating NumberPadding?