Number formats
Regional presets, thousands separators, compact notation, and decimal-comma handling.
Numlex formats both what you type and what it answers so numbers read the way your region expects. Settings live on the Numbers tab (Settings → Numbers).
Regional presets
Four presets control digit grouping, decimal separator and related behavior:
| Preset | Locale | Decimal | Grouping |
|---|---|---|---|
| System | follows macOS | . or , | locale default |
| North America | en_US | . | 1,234.5 |
| Western Europe | de_DE | , | 1.234,5 |
| Eastern Europe | ru_RU | , | 1 234,5 |
Choose System to track whatever the rest of your Mac uses.
Toggles
Three independent switches refine any preset:
- Convert foreign numbers on paste — re-interpret pasted figures that use a different separator convention.
- Thousands separator — show (or hide) the grouping mark in answers.
- Compact notation — render large magnitudes compactly.
Decimal-comma modes
When a preset uses a comma as the decimal separator (Western Europe, Eastern
Europe, or a comma-decimal System locale), a comma can no longer serve as a
thousands or argument separator. In these modes Numlex uses a semicolon ;
as the list separator inside function calls, so arguments stay unambiguous:
sum(1; 234) two arguments: 1 and 234
average(4; 8) 6In dot-decimal presets the ordinary comma rules apply instead — including the thousands-separator nuance described in Variables & functions.