On 17 fév, 11:03, Daniel Fetchinson <fetchin...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> Hi folks, often times in science one expresses a value (say > >> 1.03789291) and its error (say 0.00089) in a short way by parentheses > >> like so: 1.0379(9) > > > Before swallowing any Python solution, you should > > realize, the values (value, error) you are using are > > a non sense : > > > 1.03789291 +/- 0.00089 > > > You express "more precision" in the value than > > in the error. > > My impression is that you didn't understand the original problem: > given an arbitrary value to arbitrary digits and an arbitrary error, > find the relevant number of digits for the value that makes sense for > the given error. So what you call "non sense" is part of the problem > to be solved. >
I do not know where these numbers (value, error) are coming from. But, when the value and the error have not the same "precision", there is already something wrong somewhere. And this, *prior* to any representation of these values/numbers. jmf -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
