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Re: Updating NumberPadding?

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg84388] Re: Updating NumberPadding?
• From: "David Park" <djmpark at comcast.net>
• Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:17:46 -0500 (EST)
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But suppose one has a single number that is displayed dynamically and one 
doesn't want it to jump around with successive displays in time? That is the 
situation I have.

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David Park
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"Albert Retey" <awnl at arcor.net> wrote in message 
news:fkcte4$1sf$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> 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
> 

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