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Interesting point about right-aligning numeric data. I've been making data tables for a living for a decade, and never actually considered the reasoning behind
by siddboots 10y ago
Interesting point about right-aligning numeric data. I've been making data tables for a living for a decade, and never actually considered the reasoning behind it.
- beart 10y agoThat seems very odd to me. I would expect most people should have learned the impact of this from the first time learning addition. I guess this is a good example of why you can never assume to know how someone else thinks about information. | 5 |+ 10 |---- | 15 | 5 |+ 10 |---- | 15
- et-al 10y agoAs beart says, it helps with arithmetic by lining up the 1s, 10s, 100s. Also, it makes it easier to compare which number is larger/smaller--very useful when dealing with currencies.