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mina
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number formatting

Post by mina »

Hi all,

I have been googling this but couldn't find anything.

Is there a way to make LaTeX take care of formatting numbers? For example, if I write 165010621 in my tex file I'd like to see 165,010,621 in my PDF. It's not really a big deal, I can add the commas manually, but I am really curious whether something exists to do it automatically.

I use report class and PDFLaTeX.

Cheers,
Mina
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Post by Stefan Kottwitz »

Hi Mina,

you could use the numprint package.

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The siunitx package is also a candidate.


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mina
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Post by mina »

Hi,

Thank you guys. I tried the numprint packages. An example:

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Code, edit and compile here:
\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{report}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{numprint}
\begin{document}
\numprint[m^2]{48524378} (\numprint{4.8e-7}, or \numprint[mln]{48.5}) and \numprint[\%]{36.19}.
\selectlanguage{english}
\numprint[nt]{48524378} (\numprint{4.8e7}, or \numprint[mln]{48.5}) and \numprint[\%]{36.19}.
\npdecimalsign{\ensuremath{\cdot}}
\npthousandsep{,}
\npproductsign{*}
\numprint[nt]{48524378} (\numprint{4.8e7}, or \numprint[mln]{48.5}) and \numprint[\%]{36.19}.
\end{document}
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Cheers,
Mina
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