Is there a way to suppress the answer conversion to exact symbolic fractions?
I do numerical calculations and prefer to see 1.5 instead of 3/2 as an answer.
I know I can click on the cell and re-evaluate it to get 1.5 but is there a way to force that behavior by default, like in Matlab?
Number(3/2) still returns 3/2.

Mathematica resolves such an issue by using the decimal point to indicate an imput is numeric not exact symbolic. For example 3/2. evaluates to 1.5 in Mathematica.