REPOST: Re: set decimal place

[Chris Barker]

Peter Hansen wrote:

> >>> 10.0/3
> 3.3333333333333335
> >>> round(10.0/3, 4)
> 3.3332999999999999
> ^^^^^^^
> This doesn't really solve the OP's problem.

> The concept of "having 4 decimal places" is meaningless with
> floating point representations until you actually display the
> value as a formatted string.

not completely. you might want to check if two values are the same to 4
decimal places, in which case round should work just fine:

>>> 10.0/3 == 10.00001/3
0
>>> round(10.0/3,4) == round(10.00001/3,4)
1

of course, you would more often want to compare given n significatn
figures instaead, in whioch case you can write a function with log, etc
that will do it for you. See the archives for a discussion of this, and
some posted code.

-Chris




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