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ddenholm1-Visitor
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August 29, 2012
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Commas for thousands?

  • August 29, 2012
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Maybe I am the weird but I would like to be able to format results using commas to make the "thousands" and "millions" clear.

I realize that one can use engineering notation with powers of 10^3, 10^6, etc. but it would be nice to be able to have "3,000.00" or "42,000,500"

One has always had that available in Excel (or its long departed competitors... Anyone remember Visicalc or SuperCalc?)

--Doug

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    RichardJ19-Tanzanite
    19-Tanzanite
    August 29, 2012

    One of many long standing requests.

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      Jason_McCool10-Marble
      10-Marble
      December 19, 2025

      If it was a "longstanding request" in 2012, I suppose we can safely call it an "ignored request" 13 years later....Not sure why. It seems like such a basic thing. Mathcad makes calcs so much more readable than spreadsheets, and yet we get to the final result and the spreadsheet can make any large number easier to read than Mathcad, which prides itself on readability with its clear formulas and nice math fonts. Strange.

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      Werner_E25-Diamond I
      25-Diamond I
      December 19, 2025

      Even though thousands separators are quite common in the region where I live, I personally have always found them extremely irritating and misleading - especially if its a superscript dot or comma rather than a space. Even worse if a normal dot is used (where I live we use the comma as decimal separator).

      But as an formatting option, yes, sure, why not.

      However, I think that Prime definitely has bigger problems that need to be solved. Would be happy if Prime could at least come a little closer to the quality and functionality of good old ancient Mathcad.

       

      But feel free to suggest an idea here and hope for the best.

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