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DecimalFormat (Java 2 Platform SE v1.4.2) The grouping separator is commonly used for thousands, but in some countries it separates ten-thousands. Returns the decimal format symbols, which is generally not changed by the programmer or user. Sets the decimal format symbols, which is generally not changed by the programmer or user. java.sun.com /j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/text/DecimalFormat.html   (2531 words)

Decimal - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography Decimal notation is the writing of numbers in the base-ten numeral system, which uses various symbols (called digits) for ten distinct values (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9) to represent numbers. These digits are often used with a decimal separator which indicates the start of a fractional part, and with one of the sign symbols + (positive) or − (negative) in front of the numerals to indicate sign. Decimal fractions are commonly expressed without a denominator, the decimal separator being inserted into the numerator (with leading zeros added if needed), at the position from the right corresponding to the power of ten of the denominator. www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Decimal   (1490 words)

Decimal These digits are often used with a decimal separator which indicates the start of a fractional part, and with one of the sign symbols + (plus) or − (minus) to indicate sign. The integer and fractional parts of a decimal number are separated by a decimal separator. Numbers with many digits before and/or after the decimal point may be divided into groups of three, starting from the decimal separator in both directions. www.dejavu.org /cgi-bin/get.cgi?ver=93&url=http://articles.gourt.com/%22http%3A%2F%2Farticles.gourt.com%2F%3Farticle%3Ddecimal   (1417 words)

Fixed Decimal Fields   (Site not responding. Last check: ) Decimal fields are for the entry of numbers with embedded decimal separators, such as currency values. If 9 were used as the control character, it would not permit entry of a decimal separator. The decimal separator will be printed in the field in the specified position and protected. www.vtsoft.com /VVHTMLHelp/VVUsersGd/htm/fixeddecimalfields.htm   (391 words)

Mono Documentation Digits between the decimal point and the most significant digit in the value are grouped using the group size specified by the Globalization.NumberFormatInfo.NumberGroupSizes property. The position of the leftmost '0' before the decimal separator and the rightmost '0' after the decimal separator determine the range of digits that are always present in the output string. The scale factor is determined by the number of group separator characters immediately to the left of the decimal separator. www.go-mono.com /docs/monodoc.ashx?link=T:System.IFormattable   (2410 words)

Decimal Summary A decimal fraction is a number written in decimal notation that does not have any digits except 0 to the left of the decimal point. When reading a decimal fraction out loud, "point" is a common abbreviation for "decimal point." For clarity, decimal fractions whose absolute value is less than one are written with the unit zero in front of the decimal point--for example, 0.5. Decimal is derived from Latin as "decem" (10) and Greek "deka" (10). www.bookrags.com /Decimal   (4114 words)

User-Defined Numeric Formats (Format Function) If the number has more digits to the right of the decimal separator than there are zeros to the right of the decimal separator in the format expression, rounds the number to as many decimal places as there are zeros. A thousand separator immediately to the left of the decimal separator (whether or not a decimal is specified) or as the rightmost character in the string means "scale the number by dividing it by 1,000, rounding as needed." Multiple separators in any position other than immediately to the left of the decimal separator or the rightmost position in the string are treated simply as specifying the use of a thousand separator. msdn2.microsoft.com /en-us/library/4fb56f4y.aspx   (1058 words)

Comma as decimal separator The comma as a decimal separator is used in several continental European countries, including Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, and - we think - also Italy and the Netherlands. The notational convention of using a punctuation mark to separate the fractional part of a number seems to have begun with John Napier,a Scot, in his book "Descriptio" published in 1616. In Earliest Uses of Mathematical Symbols under Grouping the claim is made that the modern system of separating a numeral into groups of 3 with commas first appeared in 1795 in the article "Numeration" in "Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary" by Hutton. mathcentral.uregina.ca /QQ/database/QQ.09.99/menuge1.html   (314 words)

Class java.text.DecimalFormat   (Site not responding. Last check: ) Parsing will be unreliable if the digits, thousands or decimal separators are the same, or if any of them occur in the prefixes or suffixes. Sets the decimal format symbols, which is generally not changed by the programmer or user. Returns the decimal format symbols, which is generally not changed by the programmer or user. www.uni-koeln.de /rrzk/software/programming/java/docs1.1/api/java.text.DecimalFormat.html   (1395 words)

Af-Arch: A platform to build distribuited applications.: Af-Arch: Framework Documentation Center However, managing moneraty values on countries where decimal separator is a dot there is no problem but, this is not the same on those countries where this separator is a comma. This is because the SQL syntax uses the dot as decimal separator and the comma as a lenguage element to separate enumerations. Being SQL defined this way, decimal separator for european countries is a question which will give problems not only with PostgreSQL but with every SQL database backend. www.aspl.es /fact/doc/af_decimal.html   (577 words)

Decimal separator The decimal separator is used to mark the boundary between the integer and the fractional parts of a decimal numeral. Later, a separator (a short, roughly vertical, ink-stroke) between the units and tenths position became the norm. In many countries, therefore, the comma is used to mark the decimal units position; however, in predominantly English-speaking countries, a stop (. www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/d/de/decimal_separator.html   (318 words)

Mactopia: Excel 2001: Change how separators display in Excel For instance, if you specify in the Numbers Control Panel that the decimal separator is a comma (","), and you have a number such as 325,45 in your text file, Excel recognizes 325,45 as numerical data and treats it as such. Click the arrow next to Decimal separator, and choose the separator that your text file uses for decimals (Note this may not necessarily be the kind of separator you want displayed). Excel recognizes the comma as a decimal separator, treats the data as a number, and displays the decimal separator according to that set in Control Panel. www.microsoft.com /mac/otherproducts/office2001/using.aspx?pid=usingoffice2001&type=howto&article=/mac/library/how_to_articles/office2001/xl/separatordisplay.xml   (464 words)

TRealFormat in Character Representation of Real Numbers Defines either the number of characters to be used to represent the decimal portion of the number, or the maximum number of significant digits in the character representation of the number. Defines the character to be used to separate the integer portion of a number representation from its decimal portion. For example, a value of 1 causes the number 1000 to be represented by the characters “1,000” whereas a value of 4 causes the same number to represented by the characters “1000” (This assumes the ‘,’ triad separation character). www.symbian.com /developer/techlib/v8.1adocs/doc_source/reference/reference-cpp/N101BA/CharacterRepresentationOfRealNumbers/TRealFormatClass.html   (544 words)

ICU 3.6: DecimalFormat Class Reference The grouping separator ',' can occur inside the integer and sigDigits elements, between any two pattern characters of that element, as long as the integer or sigDigits element is not followed by the exponent element. Two grouping intervals are recognized: That between the decimal point and the first grouping symbol, and that between the first and second grouping symbols. Trailing zero digits to the right of the decimal separator are suppressed after the minimum number of significant digits have been shown. icu.sourceforge.net /apiref/icu4c/classDecimalFormat.html   (4315 words)

Decimal Separator   (Site not responding. Last check: ) is a pattern that says you want at least one digit in the integer part of the output string, followed by a decimal separator, followed by six digits. The decimal separator in the output string depends on your locale. Even in locales where dot is not the proper decimal separator, the format string uses dot to show where it goes. chortle.ccsu.edu /java5/Notes/chap24B/ch24B_9.html   (178 words)

Answer ID 419: Using a comma decimal symbol rather than a period Choose a region that uses the decimal separator you prefer. For example, to use a comma as a decimal separator, choose French (France) instead of English (United States). On the General tab, choose a region that uses the decimal separator you prefer. www.minitab.com /support/answers/answer.aspx?id=419   (233 words)

OpenOffice.org Forum at OOoForum.org :: View topic - decimal separator   (Site not responding. Last check: ) In my cell, the decimal separator is a dot. So I assumed that I needed to tell OO that the new decimal separator is a dot instead of a comma. Try changing the Locale setting to one which uses the dot as the decimal separator, opening the csv file then switching back to the French Locale setting. www.oooforum.org /forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=174553   (284 words)

FIX: Changing Decimal Separator Causes Load Errors for Form By changing the decimal separator, you can affect the way decimal numbers look when output by statements such as the PRINT method. However, if you change the decimal separator, you may get the following error when you load a form that had was saved as text (the default): "Errors during load. Any properties that where written as a decimal number, such as the FontSize property, may not be recognized if you have changed the decimal separator. support.microsoft.com /kb/94776   (405 words)

Decimal separator validation | drupal.org The Decimal separator setting in the payment module is no only affecting the way prices are displayed. However, I would prefer when prices in the database would remain with a decimal point, whatever the setting, so I would not need to manually change the price format of already entered products and would allow the exchange of database independent of the separator used. separator are only used for display, and it's confusing when users have to enter amount, or with admin access upon product creation. drupal.org /node/34566   (460 words)

Decimal separator validation | drupal.org The Decimal separator setting in the payment module is no only affecting the way prices are displayed. However, I would prefer when prices in the database would remain with a decimal point, whatever the setting, so I would not need to manually change the price format of already entered products and would allow the exchange of database independent of the separator used. separator are only used for display, and it's confusing when users have to enter amount, or with admin access upon product creation. www.drupal.org /node/34566   (316 words)

kbAlertz: In Microsoft Excel, when you change the decimal separator to a comma, or you change the thousand separator to ... kbAlertz: In Microsoft Excel, when you change the decimal separator to a comma, or you change the thousand separator to a period, the values that you enter into a cell may be increased by a factor of 1,000, and calculated values may be increased by a factor of In Microsoft Excel, when you change the decimal separator to a comma, or you change the thousand separator to a period, the values that you enter into a cell may be increased by a factor of 1,000, and calculated values may be increased by a factor of In Microsoft Excel, when you change the decimal separator to a comma, or when you change the thousand separator to a period, the values that you enter into a cell may be increased by a factor of 1,000. www.kbalertz.com /kb_Q277605.aspx   (582 words)

Autodesk - Autodesk Architectural Desktop - Updated AecProjectBase45.dbx for decimal separator issue in project ...   (Site not responding. Last check: ) You used Project Navigator to set up your project elevations and now you notice that decimal separators are incorrectly removed from project elevation values, such as Floor Elevation and Floor to Floor Height. As an example, you set the Floor to Floor Height at 3.25 meters, but this value is converted to 325 meters. This problem only affects English versions of Autodesk® Architectural Desktop 2005 and will occur if your Windows Regional Settings are configured to use a comma for the decimal separator instead of a period. usa.autodesk.com /adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=4155677&linkID=2475897   (213 words)

XL: Decimal Separator Is a Different Character Than Expected When you type a decimal number, the decimal separator may appear as a character other than a period (.), such as a comma (,). The regional settings in Microsoft Windows are set to use a decimal separator other than a period character. The decimal separator in your copy of Excel has been set to use a different character than a period. support.microsoft.com /kb/320532   (334 words)

[No title] instruction declares a decimal format, which controls the interpretation of a format pattern that is used by the specifies the character used for the decimal sign; the default value is the dot character (.). specifies the character used to separate positive and negative subpatterns in a pattern; the default value is the semicolon character (;). www.stylusstudio.com /docs/v60/d_xslt73.html   (434 words)

Qt 3.0: QString Class QString str; str = QString("Decimal 63 is %1 in hexadecimal").arg(63, 0, 16); // str == "Decimal 63 is 3f in hexadecimal" This string is treated as a sequence of fields separated by the string, sep. This string is treated as a sequence of fields separated by the regular expression, reg. doc.trolltech.com /3.0/qstring.html   (8458 words)

IVR shows a distorted image for languages that use "," as decimal separator IVR shows a distorted image for languages that use "," as decimal separator If you choose a language that uses "," as the decimal separator and then create an IVR panorama, the HTML code written by The Panorama Factory will include floating-point numbers containing "," as the decimal separator. Unfortunately, IVR apparently follows the US convention of "." as the decimal separator. www.panoramafactory.com /trouble/trouble_538.html   (100 words)

Length Conversion Brug kun punktum (.) som en gyldig decimal separator. The period (.) is used as decimal separator. / Punktum (.) er brugt som decimal separator. www.danbbs.dk /~erikoest/length.htm   (237 words)

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