Ethan Furman wrote:
I will readily admit to not having a maths degree, and so of course to me saying the integer 123 has a precision of 5, 10, or 99 digits seems like hogwash to me.
Seems to me insisting that the number after the dot be called "precision" in all cases is imposing a foolish consistency. There's a third thing that %-formats use it for as well: for a string it means the maximum number of characters to include. To my way of thinking, the format string just lets you specify uop to two numbers, the interpratation or wnich is up to toe format concerned. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
