On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 01:16 pm Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Steven D'Aprano > <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> Zero sig figure: 0 >> > > Is 0.0 one sig fig or two? (Just vaguely curious. Also curious as to > whether a zero sig figures value is ever useful.)
Two. I was actually being slightly silly about zero fig figures. Although, I suppose, if you genuinely had zero significant figures, you couldn't tell what the number was at all, so you'd need to use a NaN :) -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
