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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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      Jason_McCool10-Marble
      10-Marble
      December 24, 2025

      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!

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