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Re: DigitBlock problem

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• Subject: [mg39660] Re: DigitBlock problem
• From: Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au>
• Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 00:34:17 -0500 (EST)
• Organization: The University of Western Australia
• References: <b34qpo$gkg$1@smc.vnet.net> <b3hr2h$ie3$1@smc.vnet.net>
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In article <b3hr2h$ie3$1 at smc.vnet.net>,
 Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au> wrote:

> Looks like a bug to me. The same behavior occurs in the following 
> example:
> 
>   PaddedForm[10!, 12, 
>    DigitBlock -> 3, NumberPadding -> "0",   NumberSeparator -> " "]
> 
> NumberSeparator is not being applied to the 0 padding digits.

Eric Bynum from WRI Technical Support informed me that:

DigitBlock is not intended to affect the padding. If you want spaces in
the number padding you can include them in the value of the NumberPadding
option.

For example,

   Table[PaddedForm[BaseForm[i, 2], 8, 
      NumberPadding -> {"0000 ", ""},
      NumberSigns -> {"", ""}, 
      DigitBlock -> 4, 
      NumberSeparator -> " "], 
   {i, 127}] // TableForm

I still don't see why DigitBlock is not applied to the padding.

Cheers,
Paul

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