On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 9:39 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrenced...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thursday, July 14, 2016 at 12:46:26 PM UTC+12, Ian wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 4:24 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: >>> On Wednesday, July 13, 2016 at 6:22:31 PM UTC+12, Ian wrote: >>> >>>> ... don't call it "precision". >>> >>> How about “mantissa length”, then. That sufficiently neutral for you? >> >> That makes even less sense for integers. > > Why?
Because integers don't have a mantissa. Side note, neither do floating point numbers, really; what is often called the mantissa is more properly known as the significand. But integers don't have that either. Back to naming, I think the best you could do would just be something utterly generic like "formatted size". It doesn't help that in some cases it represents a minimum size and in other cases a maximum, so you can't even characterize it with that. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
