Re: NumberForm spaces and commas in v7.0.1
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- Subject: [mg98855] Re: NumberForm spaces and commas in v7.0.1
- From: dh <dh at metrohm.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:08:35 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi, in version 7 the default NumberSeparator is "," before the decimal point and "space" after it. If you want "," everywhere e.g.: NumberForm[10^5 N[Pi, 15], DigitBlock -> 3] Look it up in the manual. Daniel underante wrote: > 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. >