Converting 5.223701009526849e-05 to 5e-05

Sun May 3 06:02:21 EDT 2015

Op Sunday 3 May 2015 11:51 CEST schreef Chris Angelico:
> On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 7:22 PM, Cecil Westerhof <Cecil at decebal.nl> wrote:
>> Op Sunday 3 May 2015 10:40 CEST schreef Ben Finney:
>>>>> Cecil Westerhof <Cecil at decebal.nl> 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.
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Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
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