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Re: Percentage Formating

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg111044] Re: Percentage Formating
• From: Bill Rowe <readnews at sbcglobal.net>
• Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 01:04:04 -0400 (EDT)

On 7/17/10 at 8:16 AM, sebastian.mirandadiaz at gmail.com (SMiranda)
wrote:

>There's an easy way of formating percentage numbers form reporting
>purposes... I mean... 0.05263 --> 5.26%

Here is one way

In[6]:= ToString[NumberForm[0.05263 100, 3]] <> "%"

Out[6]= 5.26%

Note, this will not display all values to an accuracy of 0.01%
since it only retains 3 significant digits. Another method would be:

In[7]:= ToString[Round[0.05263 100, .01]] <> "%"

Out[7]= 5.26%

which will display all values to an accuracy of 0.01%.