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Cheers for that. Thank Zeus that we are all different. <!-- removed comment as it was too ambiguous, my apologies to all. --> [[User:NevilleDNZ|NevilleDNZ]] 09:33, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
The problem with removing commas is that the input string might have some numbers inside it whether the comma is used as a decimal point (common in continental european number formatting, whereas the UK and US use a period for that). This is very nasty, and wikipedia [[wp:Decimal mark|goes to some length]] on the subject's background. I recommend dropping that part of the task (though removing spaces between digit sequences ''is'' fine; it's not ambiguous except in situations which aren't polynomials at all). –[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]] 21:16, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
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