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| From | Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Subject | Re: Floating point "g" format not stripping trailing zeros |
| Date | 2015-02-13 14:02 +0000 |
| Organization | PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC |
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On 2015-02-12, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Hrvoje Nikšić <hniksic@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> {:.15g} is supposed to give 15 digits of precision, but with trailing
>> zeros removed.
>
> The doc says with "insignificant" trailing zeros removed, not all
> trailing zeros.
Can somebody explain the difference between "significant" and
"insignificant" tailing zeros to somebody who barely passed his single
numerical methods class? [Though I have, on occasion, had to tinker
with the innards of SW floating point libraries and could fish a
hardcopy of IEEE-754 out of a filing cabinet if needed.]
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Re: Floating point "g" format not stripping trailing zeros Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-02-12 16:46 -0700
Re: Floating point "g" format not stripping trailing zeros Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-02-13 14:02 +0000
Re: Floating point "g" format not stripping trailing zeros Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-02-13 09:56 -0700
Re: Floating point "g" format not stripping trailing zeros Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-02-13 20:33 +0000
Re: Floating point "g" format not stripping trailing zeros Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-02-13 14:01 -0700
Re: Floating point "g" format not stripping trailing zeros Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-02-13 16:15 -0500
Re: Floating point "g" format not stripping trailing zeros Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-02-13 21:22 +0000
Re: Floating point "g" format not stripping trailing zeros Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-02-13 14:40 -0700
Re: Floating point "g" format not stripping trailing zeros Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-02-13 14:49 -0700
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