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Re: NumberPadding on the left

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  • Subject: [mg82848] Re: NumberPadding on the left
  • From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
  • Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 05:15:10 -0500 (EST)
  • Organization: Uni Leipzig
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  • Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de

Hi,

the sign of the number ?

Regards
   Jens

zac wrote:
> Dear Group,
> 
> I have the following code:
> 
> PaddedForm[{.1, 1, 11, 111}, {5, 3}, NumberPadding -> {"0", "0"}]
> 
> which returns: {000.100, 001.000, 011.000, 0111.000}
> 
> Obviously, I do not want the leftmost 0 in case of the last entry 111.
> What I want is to have exactly 6 digits, where 3 digits is always on
> the right side of the decimal point. I know I can convert all the
> entries to string and than pad them from the left, but this does not
> tell me why the last number here (111) is padded from the left.
> Any suggestion?
> 
> Istvan Zachar
> 
> 


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