On 2016-08-31 17:19, Guido van Rossum wrote:
I guess we need to debate what it should do if the value is
way out of range of the SI scale system -- what's it going to do when
I pass it 1e50? I propose that it should fall back to 'g' style then,
but use "engineering" style where exponents are always a multiple of
3.)
An alternative would be to use the largest or smallest scale
factor available, and use e format to make up the difference.
Not sure whether that would be better or worse.
--
Greg
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