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| Date | 2011-06-27 13:53 -0700 |
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| From | Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> |
| Subject | Re: Significant figures calculation |
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Harold wrote:
> On Jun 25, 9:04 pm, Chris Torek <nos...@torek.net> wrote:
>>> I'm curious. Is there a way to get the number of significant digits
>>> for a particular Decimal instance?
>> Yes:
>>
>> def sigdig(x):
>> "return the number of significant digits in x"
>> return len(x.as_tuple()[1])
>
> Great, Chris, this is (almost) exactly what I needed.
> To make it work for numbers like 1200, that have four digits but only
> two of them being significant, I changed your snippet to the
> following:
>
> class Empirical(Decimal) :
> @property
> def significance(self) :
> t = self.as_tuple()
> if t[2] < 0 :
> return len(t[1])
> else :
> return len(''.join(map(str,t[1])).rstrip('0'))
>
>
>>>> Empirical('1200.').significance
> 2
>>>> Empirical('1200.0').significance
> 5
What about when 1200 is actually 4 significant digits? Or 3?
~Ethan~
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Re: Significant figures calculation Erik Max Francis <max@alcyone.com> - 2011-06-27 20:49 -0700
Re: Significant figures calculation Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-06-27 15:58 -0700
Re: Significant figures calculation Harold <dadapapa@googlemail.com> - 2011-06-24 18:50 -0700
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