Commas for thousands?

[ddenholm]

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

[RichardJ]

One of many long standing requests.

[Jason_McCool]

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.

[Werner_E]

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.

[Jason_McCool]

Fair point about priorities - I was away from Mathcad for several years and was surprised when I came back to find the program had seemingly gone backwards in a lot of ways. But one of the reasons I'm using it now is for some technical publishing work where Mathcad seems to render formulas more legibly than other software out there. Complex formulas with subscripts and superscripts come out much smoother and easier to read with Mathcad's font character placement compared to equation editors in word processor/publishing software. So the formulas come out looking better from my Mathcad output than when my editor tries to recreate it in her publishing software, but then the final result is just a little off from what we'd like. Whether it's commas for a thousands separator as is standard in the US for me, or a period or space in other regions, it would be nice if we had the option of turning on a thousands separator and specifying which one we prefer. Also, thanks for the link to the suggestions page!