Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!news.swapon.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Cecil Westerhof Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Converting 5.223701009526849e-05 to 5e-05 Date: Sun, 03 May 2015 12:02:21 +0200 Organization: Decebal Computing Lines: 26 Message-ID: <87egmykmhe.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> References: <87vbgakrlr.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> <87mw1mkoc5.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="1e75f8f7bcfe2945d0316cb03b0f6951"; logging-data="30427"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX196/g81uZFzG8BCfbRwGfaY6PSVvxoRLME=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Face: "(y8cC@tg_12{">GF'UXTW]FHI2wMiZNrnf'1EFQ&O#$m:f#O7+7}kR,v+Pti8=Vi/Z"g^?b"E Cancel-Lock: sha1:/VuT5LfYS8QNf35HpBBmOXTs6TA= sha1:mAgtYHK+8iGHsoVxcac4c+aUoBo= X-Homepage: http://www.decebal.nl/ Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:89848 Op Sunday 3 May 2015 11:51 CEST schreef Chris Angelico: > On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 7:22 PM, Cecil Westerhof wrote: >> Op Sunday 3 May 2015 10:40 CEST schreef Ben Finney: >> >>> Cecil Westerhof writes: >>> >>>> When I have a value like 5.223701009526849e-05 in most cases I am >>>> not interested in all the digest after the dot. >>> >>> What type of value is it? >> >> If the absolute value is bigger as 0 and smaller as 1, it should be >> a float. ;-) > > Or maybe a fractions.Fraction, or a decimal.Decimal, or a complex, > or maybe a RXSTRING or a Gmp.mpf! There's more than one way to store > a number... Oops. :'-( I still have to learn a lot. -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof