I support! We need commas!

Bump.

My biggest fear? Being revered by some, despised by most, and forgotten by all, and it looks like that's the route I'm heading.

Another reason I want this is because numbers over 1000000 get ridiculously hard to read so I have to count each digit to know what I'm looking at.

I agree that adding commas to numbers would increase readability. It wouldn't be difficult to write the script for this either; I'm pretty sure I have done it before.

TheHockeyist wrote:

No support. Use spaces or scientific notation instead. Commas are ambiguous, as some countries use a decimal point instead.

5.785 = 5 thousand 785 for these people.

Likewise, the comma is sometimes used for the decimal point.

5,785 = 5 + 785/1000.

Use spaces for thousands, or scientific notation (150000000000000 = 1.5e+14). Use the decimal point only, and leave it at that.

Yeah, I want my project to have 4.2x10⁴ views because that's totally not confusing to New Scratchers!

Support! this would make the site more kid-friendly and it would be easier to round to the nearest millions/thousands.

-Quantum_Studios- wrote:

TheHockeyist wrote:

No support. Use spaces or scientific notation instead. Commas are ambiguous, as some countries use a decimal point instead.

5.785 = 5 thousand 785 for these people.

Likewise, the comma is sometimes used for the decimal point.

5,785 = 5 + 785/1000.

Use spaces for thousands, or scientific notation (150000000000000 = 1.5e+14). Use the decimal point only, and leave it at that.

Yeah, I want my project to have 4.2x10⁴ views because that's totally not confusing to New Scratchers!

I think scientific notation will be much more intuitive for New Scratchers than too many digits, so it actually makes sense. Also use scientific notation when the exponent gets to -2 and below (below 0.01 and above -0.01), so as to avoid having ‘0.00…’ (in other words, have no more than one zero after the decimal point after 0 or -0).
No support for thousands, etc. separators, but support for earlier scientific notation (especially for the numerical monitors which already have reduced visual precision).

Bump

Let's say a project has 123456789 views. 1.23456789e+8 would be hard for new users to understand, right? Maybe scientific notation isn't the best idea.

wha

In code, this would break the projects that use the letter block and the length of block, so the mathematical reporter blocks should not report numbers with commas.

Maybe we could add a block, because using commas may break some projects:

(convert number (100) to [,] delimiting

Support, readability counts. There would be a lot of localization required, but fun fact: this exists

chriscreators14 wrote:

Maybe we could add a block, because using commas may break some projects:

(convert number (100) to [,] delimiting

k7e wrote:

In code, this would break the projects that use the letter block and the length of block, so the mathematical reporter blocks should not report numbers with commas.

This is for adding commas/periods to project statistics, not for numbers in the editor

Edit: I can’t believe I didn’t read the op dang it

Support. We definitely need more commas to emphasize our statements.