Convert a scientific notation to decimal number, and still keeping the data format as float64
Here is my question: I am using the numpy.std formula to calculate the standart deviation. However, the result comes as a number in scientific notation. Therefore I am asking, How to convert a scientific notation to decimal number, and still keep the data format as float64 ? Or is there any workaround to get the initial standart deviation result as a decimal number? Here is my code: stdev=numpy.std(dataset) print(stdev) Result: 4.449e-05 print(stdev.dtype) Result: float64 Solutions such as this: stdev=format(stdev, '.10f') converts the data into a string object! which I don't want. Expected result: I am willing to have a result as a decimal number in a float64 format. System: (Python 3.7.4 running on Win10) Regards, -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Convert a scientific notation to decimal number, and still keeping the data format as float64
On Friday, October 18, 2019 at 2:46:42 PM UTC+3, Gys wrote:
> On 10/18/19 10:35 AM, doganad...@gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > Here is my question:
> >
> >
> > I am using the numpy.std formula to calculate the standart deviation.
> > However, the result comes as a number in scientific notation.
> > Therefore I am asking, How to convert a scientific notation to decimal
> > number, and still keep the data format as float64 ?
> >
> > Or is there any workaround to get the initial standart deviation result as
> > a decimal number?
> >
> >
> > Here is my code:
> >
> > stdev=numpy.std(dataset)
> > print(stdev)
> > Result: 4.449e-05
> >
> >
> > print(stdev.dtype)
> > Result: float64
> >
> >
> > Solutions such as this:
> >
> > stdev=format(stdev, '.10f')
> > converts the data into a string object! which I don't want.
> >
> >
> > Expected result: I am willing to have a result as a decimal number in a
> > float64 format.
> >
> > System: (Python 3.7.4 running on Win10)
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
>
> Hi, doganad...@gmail.com
>
> why don't you use
>
> print("{0:10.5f}".format(x))
>
> The only thing you want is a specific form of the human readable
> representation of the number. For this it is not necessary the convert
> the *number* itself definitely to a string. You only have to make a
> temp copy of x for printing purposes.
>
> Linux Mint Tara in Spyder(Python 3.6) :
>
> x=4.449e-05
>
> print(x)
> 4.449e-05
>
> print("{0:8.5f}".format(x))
> 0.5
>
> print(x)
> 4.449e-05
>
> hth
> Gys
Hello,
I don't only need a human readable representation of number, I need to use it
further, do things such as putting it in a pandas object and saving it to an
excel file.
Doing things such as
x="{0:10.5f}".format(x)
gives a str object as a result:
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Re: Convert a scientific notation to decimal number, and still keeping the data format as float64
On Friday, October 18, 2019 at 2:21:34 PM UTC+3, Richard Damon wrote: > On 10/18/19 4:35 AM, doganad...@gmail.com wrote: > > Here is my question: > > > > > > I am using the numpy.std formula to calculate the standart deviation. > > However, the result comes as a number in scientific notation. > > Therefore I am asking, How to convert a scientific notation to decimal > > number, and still keep the data format as float64 ? > > > > Or is there any workaround to get the initial standart deviation result as > > a decimal number? > > > > > > Here is my code: > > > > stdev=numpy.std(dataset) > > print(stdev) > > Result: 4.449e-05 > > > > > > print(stdev.dtype) > > Result: float64 > > > > > > Solutions such as this: > > > > stdev=format(stdev, '.10f') > > converts the data into a string object! which I don't want. > > > > > > Expected result: I am willing to have a result as a decimal number in a > > float64 format. > > > > System: (Python 3.7.4 running on Win10) > > > > > > Regards, > > The number itself isn't in scientific notation or a fixed point number, > but is a floating point number that is expressed internally as an > integer times a power of 2 (that is the basic representation format for > floating point). > > Scientific notation vs fixed point notation is purely an OUTPUT > configuration, not a function on how the number is stored (so in one > sense IS more closely linked to a string than the float itself). > > -- > Richard Damon Hello Richard, You seem so right. But what will we do with those strings with 'e' in it? There are ways to present those in a 'normal' way with formatting. However, the result of those formatting turns them into str object and which limits you to do any further numerical things with them. Another thing which I have observed, while doing some experimental thing is that: >>> 0.0 0.0 >>> 0.1 0.1 >>> 0.01 0.01 >>> 0.001 0.001 >>> 0.0001 0.0001 >>> 0.1 1e-05 Again another thing with 1e-05! instead of 0.1 , Is there anything I can do about it? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Convert a scientific notation to decimal number, and still keeping the data format as float64
On Friday, October 18, 2019 at 4:17:51 PM UTC+3, Richard Damon wrote: > On 10/18/19 9:03 AM, doganad...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Friday, October 18, 2019 at 2:21:34 PM UTC+3, Richard Damon wrote: > >> On 10/18/19 4:35 AM, doganad...@gmail.com wrote: > >>> Here is my question: > >>> > >>> > >>> I am using the numpy.std formula to calculate the standart deviation. > >>> However, the result comes as a number in scientific notation. > >>> Therefore I am asking, How to convert a scientific notation to decimal > >>> number, and still keep the data format as float64 ? > >>> > >>> Or is there any workaround to get the initial standart deviation result > >>> as a decimal number? > >>> > >>> > >>> Here is my code: > >>> > >>> stdev=numpy.std(dataset) > >>> print(stdev) > >>> Result: 4.449e-05 > >>> > >>> > >>> print(stdev.dtype) > >>> Result: float64 > >>> > >>> > >>> Solutions such as this: > >>> > >>> stdev=format(stdev, '.10f') > >>> converts the data into a string object! which I don't want. > >>> > >>> > >>> Expected result: I am willing to have a result as a decimal number in a > >>> float64 format. > >>> > >>> System: (Python 3.7.4 running on Win10) > >>> > >>> > >>> Regards, > >> The number itself isn't in scientific notation or a fixed point number, > >> but is a floating point number that is expressed internally as an > >> integer times a power of 2 (that is the basic representation format for > >> floating point). > >> > >> Scientific notation vs fixed point notation is purely an OUTPUT > >> configuration, not a function on how the number is stored (so in one > >> sense IS more closely linked to a string than the float itself). > >> > >> -- > >> Richard Damon > > > > Hello Richard, > > > > You seem so right. But what will we do with those strings with 'e' in it? > > > > There are ways to present those in a 'normal' way with formatting. However, > > the result of those formatting turns them into str object and which limits > > you to do any further numerical things with them. > > > > Another thing which I have observed, while doing some experimental thing is > > that: > > > 0.0 > > 0.0 > > > 0.1 > > 0.1 > > > 0.01 > > 0.01 > > > 0.001 > > 0.001 > > > 0.0001 > > 0.0001 > > > 0.1 > > 1e-05 > > > > Again another thing with 1e-05! instead of 0.1 , Is there anything I > > can do about it? > > The 'e' is only part of the string representation presentation of the > value. By default, python decides to present small numbers in > exponential format. If you don't like that, when you print the numbers > specify the format YOU want, rather than taking the default. > > Note, that print() by necessity converts an objects value to a string, > and this conversion for floats uses exponential notation by default for > small numbers. If you don't like it, then use an explicit format for the > conversion. > > An alternative might be to change from using a float64 to making it > something like a Decimal. > > -- > Richard Damon By taking the default OUTPUT of a numpy formula, in my case standart deviation, I am using the advantage of saving the result into an excel file without any problems.(they come as numpy.float64) From there, The excel takes all the things as they are and some of my small numbers are shown with the 'e' on the excel sheet. Which I am trying to avoid. I don't need 100 numbers after the comma. What I need is a reasonable amount of decimal numbers to show that the number is small enough, also keeping them in float64, in my case to save them into excel file. One important thing to say is that, if I convert them into string and save them on excel they come with 'dot' instead of comma. And If try to translate the 'dot' manually into 'comma' the excel gives warning message to turn those inputs into numbers. Which I also avoid. If this is Python default, showing all numbers smaller than 0.0001 with 'e' and there is no way to have them in both a human readable and excel savable form. what sould I do? Should I consider using another programming language? If yes, then this language could be callable from within python and I might do things I can. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Convert a scientific notation to decimal number, and still keeping the data format as float64
On Friday, October 18, 2019 at 4:55:33 PM UTC+3, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 12:51 AM wrote: > > By taking the default OUTPUT of a numpy formula, in my case standart > > deviation, I am using the advantage of saving the result into an excel file > > without any problems.(they come as numpy.float64) From there, The excel > > takes all the things as they are and some of my small numbers are shown > > with the 'e' on the excel sheet. Which I am trying to avoid. > > > > I don't need 100 numbers after the comma. What I need is a reasonable > > amount of decimal numbers to show that the number is small enough, also > > keeping them in float64, in my case to save them into excel file. One > > important thing to say is that, if I convert them into string and save them > > on excel they come with 'dot' instead of comma. And If try to translate the > > 'dot' manually into 'comma' the excel gives warning message to turn those > > inputs into numbers. Which I also avoid. > > > > If this is Python default, showing all numbers smaller than 0.0001 with 'e' > > and there is no way to have them in both a human readable and excel savable > > form. > > > > You're conflating the number with its representation. Whenever you > display a number, you need a set of digits. The number itself is > exactly the same whether it's written as 0.0001 or 1e-8 or any > other form, just as you can write a fraction as 3 1/7 or as 22/7 and > it's the same number. > > Look at the way you're "saving the result into an Excel file". > Firstly, is it CSV or actually saved into Excel format? Then look at > the way you actually display the number there. In a CSV file, once > again, you need a series of digits, so you simply need to format the > number the way that people have been advising you. > > ChrisA Thank you Chris, I will answer down below, on Richard's -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Convert a scientific notation to decimal number, and still keeping the data format as float64
On Friday, October 18, 2019 at 5:53:24 PM UTC+3, Richard Damon wrote: > On 10/18/19 9:45 AM, doganad...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Friday, October 18, 2019 at 4:17:51 PM UTC+3, Richard Damon wrote: > >> On 10/18/19 9:03 AM, doganad...@gmail.com wrote: > >>> On Friday, October 18, 2019 at 2:21:34 PM UTC+3, Richard Damon wrote: > On 10/18/19 4:35 AM, doganad...@gmail.com wrote: > > Here is my question: > > > > > > I am using the numpy.std formula to calculate the standart deviation. > > However, the result comes as a number in scientific notation. > > Therefore I am asking, How to convert a scientific notation to decimal > > number, and still keep the data format as float64 ? > > > > Or is there any workaround to get the initial standart deviation result > > as a decimal number? > > > > > > Here is my code: > > > > stdev=numpy.std(dataset) > > print(stdev) > > Result: 4.449e-05 > > > > > > print(stdev.dtype) > > Result: float64 > > > > > > Solutions such as this: > > > > stdev=format(stdev, '.10f') > > converts the data into a string object! which I don't want. > > > > > > Expected result: I am willing to have a result as a decimal number in a > > float64 format. > > > > System: (Python 3.7.4 running on Win10) > > > > > > Regards, > The number itself isn't in scientific notation or a fixed point number, > but is a floating point number that is expressed internally as an > integer times a power of 2 (that is the basic representation format for > floating point). > > Scientific notation vs fixed point notation is purely an OUTPUT > configuration, not a function on how the number is stored (so in one > sense IS more closely linked to a string than the float itself). > > -- > Richard Damon > >>> Hello Richard, > >>> > >>> You seem so right. But what will we do with those strings with 'e' in it? > >>> > >>> There are ways to present those in a 'normal' way with formatting. > >>> However, the result of those formatting turns them into str object and > >>> which limits you to do any further numerical things with them. > >>> > >>> Another thing which I have observed, while doing some experimental thing > >>> is that: > >>> > >> 0.0 > >>> 0.0 > >>> > >> 0.1 > >>> 0.1 > >>> > >> 0.01 > >>> 0.01 > >>> > >> 0.001 > >>> 0.001 > >>> > >> 0.0001 > >>> 0.0001 > >>> > >> 0.1 > >>> 1e-05 > >>> > >>> Again another thing with 1e-05! instead of 0.1 , Is there anything I > >>> can do about it? > >> The 'e' is only part of the string representation presentation of the > >> value. By default, python decides to present small numbers in > >> exponential format. If you don't like that, when you print the numbers > >> specify the format YOU want, rather than taking the default. > >> > >> Note, that print() by necessity converts an objects value to a string, > >> and this conversion for floats uses exponential notation by default for > >> small numbers. If you don't like it, then use an explicit format for the > >> conversion. > >> > >> An alternative might be to change from using a float64 to making it > >> something like a Decimal. > >> > >> -- > >> Richard Damon > > > > By taking the default OUTPUT of a numpy formula, in my case standart > > deviation, I am using the advantage of saving the result into an excel file > > without any problems.(they come as numpy.float64) From there, The excel > > takes all the things as they are and some of my small numbers are shown > > with the 'e' on the excel sheet. Which I am trying to avoid. > > > > I don't need 100 numbers after the comma. What I need is a reasonable > > amount of decimal numbers to show that the number is small enough, also > > keeping them in float64, in my case to save them into excel file. One > > important thing to say is that, if I convert them into string and save them > > on excel they come with 'dot' instead of comma. And If try to translate the > > 'dot' manually into 'comma' the excel gives warning message to turn those > > inputs into numbers. Which I also avoid. > > > > If this is Python default, showing all numbers smaller than 0.0001 with 'e' > > and there is no way to have them in both a human readable and excel savable > > form. > > > > what sould I do? > > > > Should I consider using another programming language? > > > > If yes, then this language could be callable from within python and I might > > do things I can. > > The problem is you are thinking of your floating point number as storing > something like 5e-5 or 0.5, it doesn't. it store something more like > 1.6384 x 2**15 (or some really big 50 some bit integer time a different > power of 2). As your words said, it SHOWS it with an e, but that isn't > what is in the number. The number is just a number represented as a float. >
Re: Convert a scientific notation to decimal number, and still keeping the data format as float64
my statement may seem unlogical while evaluating and comparing the languages as a whole.. I thought when I give a small number into the programme , the more decimals I can see after the dot as an output, the more human readable it is. when I see a bunch of numbers with 'e' s I know the numbers are small but it is hard for me to compare it to other numbers with 'e'. , specially with the human eye. I dont know much about scala actually. I have just have tried to give 0.0001 and it returned a presentation with an 'e' .whereas python takes 0.0001 and gives 0.0001 . it made me think python is better in that specific subject. However, python though starts to give 'e' number when 5 decimals are given as input. Although there can be systems around which are better in this subject other things I can achieve in python overrides some disadvantages. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Convert a scientific notation to decimal number, and still keeping the data format as float64
On Monday, October 21, 2019 at 4:09:23 PM UTC+3, Piet van Oostrum wrote: > Piet van Oostrum writes: > > > doganad...@gmail.com writes: > > > >> I dont know much about scala actually. I have just have tried to give > >> 0.0001 and it returned a presentation with an 'e' .whereas python takes > >> 0.0001 and gives 0.0001 . it made me think python is better in that > >> specific subject. > >> > >> However, python though starts to give 'e' number when 5 decimals are > >> given as input. Although there can be systems around which are better in > >> this subject other things I can achieve in python overrides some > >> disadvantages. > > > > Yes, I would say Python is more user-friendly in this particular > > example, although both outputs are correct. If I remember correctly, > > Python had an update in the area several years ago to make the output > > for floating-point numbers more user-friendly, (and at the same time > > maybe even more correct). > > > > But these are just choices of the implementers of the language, not > > characteristics of the language itself. > > In Python 0.1 => 1e-05, so it just chooses a different point to > switch from pure decimal to scientific notation. > -- > Pieter van Oostrum > WWW: http://piet.vanoostrum.org/ > PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] They ought to have a reason to make the program switch from pure decimal to scientific notation representation. I don't know that reason. Getting along with it. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Convert a scientific notation to decimal number, and still keeping the data format as float64
For me. The problem is solved. Thank you for your participation. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
