On Jan 17, 2006, at 3:38 PM, Adam Olsen wrote:
> On 1/17/06, Thomas Wouters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 09:23:29AM -0500, Jason Orendorff wrote:
>>
>>> I think a method 5664400.to_base(13) sounds nice.
>> [And others suggested int-methods too]
>>
>> I would like to point out that this is almost, but not quite,
>> entirely as
>> inapropriate as using str(). Integers don't have a base. String
>> representations of integers -- and indeed, numbers in general, as
>> the Python
>> tutorial explains in Appendix B -- have a base. Adding such a
>> method to
>> integers (and, I presume, longs) would beg the question why
>> floats, Decimals
>> and complex numbers don't have them.
>
> I dream of a day when str(3.25, base=2) == '11.01'. That is the
> number a float really represents. It would be so much easier to
> understand why floats behave the way they do if it were possible to
> print them in binary.
Actually if you wanted something that closely represents what a
floating point number is then you would want to see this::
>>> str(3.25, base=2)
'1.101e1'
>>> str(0.25, base=2)
'1.0e-10'
Printing the bits without an exponent is nearly as misleading as
printing them in decimal.
-bob
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