What to use when "," can not be in a large number?

I'm running into a problem with tables that uses "|" and "," to separate columns. But sometimes we want to display numbers to give a clue as to the size:
1
10
100
1,000
10,000
100,000
1,000,000

For example:
100000 1000000
100,000 1,000,000

Both lines have the same numbers but the second one is much easier to tell the relative sizes.

Candidates for one thousand (10**3) separators:
1000 - nothing
1.000 - period, ambiguous with fraction
1 000 - blank, ambiguous with another number
1;000 - semicolon
1:000 - colon
1`000 - reverse apostrophe
1'000 - forward apostraphe

Any thoughts?

Bob Wilson

 

The software is XenForo and the tables are what we have. Still, we have a winner:

1'000'000
10'000'000

It is in effect a comma on the top.

There is no ambiguity as it is typically used with angular notation, degrees, minutes, and seconds or to indicate feet. The three digits on the right are not found in angular notation or feet. Here is an example:

	Year	Diesel car SUV	Hybrid car SUV
1	2013	833'324​	2'821'599​
2	2012	796'794​	2'290'903​
3	2011	709'147​	1'945'295​
4	2010	640'779​	1'714'966​
5
6	2013-12	+36'530​	+530'696​
7	%+/-	+4.58%​	+23.17%​
8
9	2013-10	+192'545​	+1'106'633​
10	%+/-	+30.05%​	+64.53%​

Bob Wilson

 

Sad to say but " " is well overloaded. If I or anyone else needed to take out the separator, a SPACE causes a lot of grief.

It works in some languages but not in the table software we have available. An escape character would be nice.

Bob Wilson