Engineering numerical format PEP discussion

[Xavier Ho]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Chris Rebert <clp2 at rebertia.com> wrote:

> Apparently either you and the General Decimal Arithmetic spec differ
> on what constitutes engineering notation, there's a bug in the Python
> decimal library, or you're hitting some obscure part of the spec's
> definition. I don't have the expertise to know which is the case.
>
> The spec: http://speleotrove.com/decimal/decarith.pdf
> (to-engineering-string is on page 20 if you're interested)
>
> I just gave Page 20 a quick read, and it says:

if the number is non-zero, the converted exponent is adjusted to be a
> multiple of three (engineering notation) by positioning the decimal point
> with one, two, or three characters preceding it (that is, the part before
> the decimal point will range from 1 through 999);


Obviously that would make  '1234567' not an Engineering notation?

Cheers,
Xav
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