On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote:
> Apparently either you and the General Decimal Arithmetic spec differ > on what constitutes engineering notation, there's a bug in the Python > decimal library, or you're hitting some obscure part of the spec's > definition. I don't have the expertise to know which is the case. > > The spec: http://speleotrove.com/decimal/decarith.pdf > (to-engineering-string is on page 20 if you're interested) > > I just gave Page 20 a quick read, and it says: if the number is non-zero, the converted exponent is adjusted to be a > multiple of three (engineering notation) by positioning the decimal point > with one, two, or three characters preceding it (that is, the part before > the decimal point will range from 1 through 999); Obviously that would make '1234567' not an Engineering notation? Cheers, Xav
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