[SciPy-user] scientific rounding

[lorenzo bolla]

You can give set_printoptions a try:

In [143]: numpy.set_printoptions(0)

In [144]: print numpy.array([1.3, 1.3e-9])
[   1e+00    1e-09]

hth,
L.

On 1/7/08, Lars Friedrich <lfriedri at imtek.de> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> when printing numerical data, rounding is often desirable. I would like
> to do something like 'relative rounding'. What I mean is the following:
>
> round(1.3) -> 1.0
> round(1.3e-9) -> 0.0
>
> What I would like to have is
>
> newFunction(1.3) -> 1.0
> newFunction(1.3e-9) ->1.0e-9
>
> So I would like the newFunction to do the rounding with respect to the
> order of magnitude. Of course, it would be easy to write such a function
> (dividing by the log of the number, rounding, multiplying again), but my
> question is, if such a function is already available in numpy or scipy.
>
> Thanks,
> Lars
>
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