Message210244
> You need to stop lecturing.
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend anyone. I just felt I was failing to
communicate the issue when I got the suggestion to use format(Decimal(1),
".2f").
> The above sentence you wrote directly contradicts the Wikipedia link you
have thrown at us.
The floats I posted are examples of computation results. The meaningful
figures are related to the precision of the measurements fed to the
computation.
> by different authors and produce exactly the results that you criticize.
I understand the design choice for decimal. I just miss a pythonic way of
dealing with significant figures. |
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2014-02-04 15:46:45 | mdealencar | set | recipients:
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2014-02-04 15:46:45 | mdealencar | link | issue20502 messages |
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