>And BTW, to lessen the confusions with decimal point, decimal comma and >thousand separators, ISO (IIRC) suggests to use the apostrophe as thousand >separator. Both points and commas then become interchangeable decimal >separators. "680'000" seems to be less ambiguous than both "680,000" and >"680.000". (Of course, that still doesn't help much when you only see >either of the two :) But the OP also forgot about why you don't need all those zeros, they do not add anything to the value, so why not just put 680k ... and for decimal points do it the way many Europeans draw their schematics, and use the multiplier letter as the decimal point, so you get 6k8 ... -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist