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From: duchier@cs.yale.edu (Denys Duchier)
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Subject: Re: Difficulties with columns of numbers
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Date: 28 Nov 90 15:50:10 GMT
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In-reply-to: tas@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au's message of 28 Nov 90 05:06:10 GMT

In article <tas.659768770@tasman> tas@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (Tasman Derk Van Ommen) writes:
 >   1) How does one align a column of numbers which need to be right aligned
 >   under a central heading?
 >
 >   e.g.        The Heading
 >		    27
 >		   113
 >		  1251
 >		     4
 >		  etc.....

\begin{center}
  \begin{tabular}{c}
    The Heading\\
    \begin{tabular}{r}
      27\\113\\1251\\4
    \end{tabular}
  \end{tabular}
\end{center}

 >   2) What do you do if you have a lot of numbers to be aligned on a decimal
 >   point if the numbers have varying numbers of decimal places?
 >
 >   e.g.           10.7
 >		   1.3
 >		   0.75
 >		   etc....

\begin{center}
  \begin{tabular}{r@{.}l}
    10&7\\1&3\\0&75
  \end{tabular}
\end{center}

--Denys