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Re: Significant digits in a float?

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On 4/28/14 12:00 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
> Fundamentally, these numbers have between 0 and 4 decimal digits of precision, and I want to be able to intuit how many each has, ignoring the obvious floating point roundoff problems.  Thus, I want to map:
>
> 38.0  ==> 0
> 41.2586 ==> 4
> 40.75280000000001 ==> 4
> 49.25 ==> 2
> 33.795199999999994 ==> 4
> 36.837199999999996 ==> 4
> 34.1489 ==> 4
> 45.5 ==> 1
>
> Is there any clean way to do that?  The best I've come up with so far is to str() them and parse the remaining string to see how many digits it put after the decimal point.

That sounds like a pretty clean way:  len(str(num).partition(".")[2]), 
though it also sounds like you understand all of the inaccuracies in 
that technique.

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Ned Batchelder, http://nedbatchelder.com

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Re: Significant digits in a float? Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2014-04-28 12:07 -0400
  Re: Significant digits in a float? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-04-28 11:39 -0700
    Re: Significant digits in a float? Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2014-04-28 15:00 -0400

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