Re: NumberForm spaces and commas in v7.0.1
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- Subject: [mg98899] Re: NumberForm spaces and commas in v7.0.1
- From: dh <dh at metrohm.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:09:40 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi, sorry I copied the wrong example. It should read: NumberForm[10^5 N[Pi, 15], DigitBlock -> 3, NumberSeparator -> ","] You can find this in the manual under: NumberSeparator Daniel dh wrote: > 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. > > > >