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NumberForm spaces and commas in v7.0.1

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• Subject: [mg98842] NumberForm spaces and commas in v7.0.1
• From: underante <peekadiboo at lineone.net>
• Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 05:40:53 -0400 (EDT)

hello,

in Mathematica v4 and 5.2 to print long numbers separated by commas in blocks
of 3, i used to use something like this for example:

NumberForm[N[Pi, 10], DigitBlock -> 3]

which gave:

3.141,592,654

i.e. commas to the right of the decimal point. but in Mathematica v7.0.1  the
same statement generates number blocks separated by spaces, i.e:

3.141 592 654

i can recover the commas by using something like:

NumberForm[N[Pi, 10], DigitBlock -> 3, NumberSeparator -> ","]

but does anyone know if there is a quick fix to get the old style
commas back without having to change all my old programs in this way?

thankyou,

f.c.

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