On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 06:53 am Ethan Furman wrote: > Harold wrote: [...] >>>>> Empirical('1200.').significance >> 2
Well, that's completely wrong. It should be 4. >>>>> Empirical('1200.0').significance >> 5 > > What about when 1200 is actually 4 significant digits? Or 3? Then you shouldn't write it as 1200.0. By definition, zeros on the right are significant. If you don't want zeroes on the right to count, you have to not show them. Five sig figures: 1200.0 Four sig figures: 1200 Three sig figures: 1.20e3 Two sig figures: 1.2e3 One sig figure: 1e3 Zero sig figure: 0 -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list