Christian Gollwitzer <aurio...@gmx.de>: > Am 02.09.16 um 19:24 schrieb Marco Sulla: >> float has an 'exponentfloat' syntax. Why integers does not have an >> equivalent syntax? > > Tradition? All languages I know of treat a number with an exponent as > floating point.
Approximate real numbers are mostly needed by scientific applications, and floats do the job marvelously. Unlike many programming languages, Python has adopted big integers, which have immediate applications in cryptography. Those big integers hardly ever involve powers of ten, however, and they cannot be approximated. So the scientific notation doesn't offer any notational advantage. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
