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Status Future Consideration
Product Spotfire
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 9, 2020

Formatting option for significant digits

Especially when displaying measurement results, one usually wants to round to a certain number of significant digits, not a certain number of digits after the decimal point.

E.g. two significant digits

12.384 -> 12

0.4427 -> 0.44

75839.9 -> 76000

0.004958 -> 0.005

etc.

I'd like to see such a formatting option for numbers. Even better would be a general formatting string option like in printf() or perhaps python-style or R-style.

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