[Python-ideas] 1_000_000
Greg Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat May 7 09:36:07 CEST 2011
Fred Drake wrote:
> I understand the motivation for a thousands separator, at least (though
> I'll admit, I don't find it compelling; *all* big numbers in code are
> too magical).
Bigness is a relative concept. Avogadro's number is fairly
big in absolute terms, but you can hold that many molecules
in your hand quite easily.
Although writing it as 6_020_000_000_000_000_000_000_000_000
probably wouldn't be very helpful.
--
Greg
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