On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 7:22 PM, Cecil Westerhof <ce...@decebal.nl> wrote: > Op Sunday 3 May 2015 10:40 CEST schreef Ben Finney: > >> Cecil Westerhof <ce...@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... ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
