[Tutor] Count for loops

[Alan Gauld]

On 11/04/17 17:48, Rafael Knuth wrote:

> Pi_Number = str(3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939)
> Pi_Number = "3" + Pi_Number[2:]
> print(Pi_Number)
> 3141592653589793
>>>>
> 
> How come that not the entire string is being printed, but only the
> first 16 digits?

There are two problems here.
First str() truncates the length of the output to make it look nicer.
Second your version of PI has too many decimal places for a floating
point to hold. Flosting point numbers can hold a huge range of numbers
but not a huge precision.


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