Re: Percentage Formating
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- Subject: [mg111041] Re: Percentage Formating
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 01:03:30 -0400 (EDT)
You may be treading on dangerous ground here, since the percent sign % in Mathematica refers to the preceding Output! So do be aware that with some things you might do to include % in output, the result should be regarded as just a display format and not as something you want to feed into subsequent evaluations. So here goes. Assuming you don't want to do your own conversion from decimal fraction into percentage, I looked up "percent" in the Documentation Center and found it in the Units package. Thus: Needs["Units`"] Convert[0.05263, Percent] 5.263 Percent And then for the actual form you want, the most direct way is: percentage = Convert[0.05263, Percent] /. Percent -> "%" 5.263 % Notice that this output includes a space before the percent sign. That's not just an accident, because there's actually a product there, as is revealed by: FullForm[percentage] Times[5.263`,"%"] And this means you CAN use this kind of percent representation in further evaluation -- although I'd be cautious as to how far to go. For example: twice = 2 * percentage 10.526 % To go back to decimals, you have to be careful, because at this point the percent sign is being carried as just a text character. So you need first to change that text character into the symbol Percent: Convert[twice /. "%" -> Percent, Real] 0.10526 On 7/17/2010 8:16 AM, SMiranda wrote: > There's an easy way of formating percentage numbers form reporting > purposes... > I mean... 0.05263 --> 5.26% > > Thanks ! > -- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305