1 Sep
2016
1 Sep
'16
6:22 a.m.
On 2016-08-31 17:19, Guido van Rossum wrote:
I guess we need to debate what it should do if the value is way out of range of the SI scale system -- what's it going to do when I pass it 1e50? I propose that it should fall back to 'g' style then, but use "engineering" style where exponents are always a multiple of 3.)
An alternative would be to use the largest or smallest scale factor available, and use e format to make up the difference. Not sure whether that would be better or worse. -- Greg