On Friday, October 18, 2019 at 4:17:51 PM UTC+3, Richard Damon wrote: > On 10/18/19 9:03 AM, doganad...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Friday, October 18, 2019 at 2:21:34 PM UTC+3, Richard Damon wrote: > >> On 10/18/19 4:35 AM, doganad...@gmail.com wrote: > >>> Here is my question: > >>> > >>> > >>> I am using the numpy.std formula to calculate the standart deviation. > >>> However, the result comes as a number in scientific notation. > >>> Therefore I am asking, How to convert a scientific notation to decimal > >>> number, and still keep the data format as float64 ? > >>> > >>> Or is there any workaround to get the initial standart deviation result > >>> as a decimal number? > >>> > >>> > >>> Here is my code: > >>> > >>> stdev=numpy.std(dataset) > >>> print(stdev) > >>> Result: 4.999999999999449e-05 > >>> > >>> > >>> print(stdev.dtype) > >>> Result: float64 > >>> > >>> > >>> Solutions such as this: > >>> > >>> stdev=format(stdev, '.10f') > >>> converts the data into a string object! which I don't want. > >>> > >>> > >>> Expected result: I am willing to have a result as a decimal number in a > >>> float64 format. > >>> > >>> System: (Python 3.7.4 running on Win10) > >>> > >>> > >>> Regards, > >> The number itself isn't in scientific notation or a fixed point number, > >> but is a floating point number that is expressed internally as an > >> integer times a power of 2 (that is the basic representation format for > >> floating point). > >> > >> Scientific notation vs fixed point notation is purely an OUTPUT > >> configuration, not a function on how the number is stored (so in one > >> sense IS more closely linked to a string than the float itself). > >> > >> -- > >> Richard Damon > > > > Hello Richard, > > > > You seem so right. But what will we do with those strings with 'e' in it? > > > > There are ways to present those in a 'normal' way with formatting. However, > > the result of those formatting turns them into str object and which limits > > you to do any further numerical things with them. > > > > Another thing which I have observed, while doing some experimental thing is > > that: > > > >>>> 0.0 > > 0.0 > > > >>>> 0.1 > > 0.1 > > > >>>> 0.01 > > 0.01 > > > >>>> 0.001 > > 0.001 > > > >>>> 0.0001 > > 0.0001 > > > >>>> 0.00001 > > 1e-05 > > > > Again another thing with 1e-05! instead of 0.00001 , Is there anything I > > can do about it? > > The 'e' is only part of the string representation presentation of the > value. By default, python decides to present small numbers in > exponential format. If you don't like that, when you print the numbers > specify the format YOU want, rather than taking the default. > > Note, that print() by necessity converts an objects value to a string, > and this conversion for floats uses exponential notation by default for > small numbers. If you don't like it, then use an explicit format for the > conversion. > > An alternative might be to change from using a float64 to making it > something like a Decimal. > > -- > Richard Damon
By taking the default OUTPUT of a numpy formula, in my case standart deviation, I am using the advantage of saving the result into an excel file without any problems.(they come as numpy.float64) From there, The excel takes all the things as they are and some of my small numbers are shown with the 'e' on the excel sheet. Which I am trying to avoid. I don't need 100 numbers after the comma. What I need is a reasonable amount of decimal numbers to show that the number is small enough, also keeping them in float64, in my case to save them into excel file. One important thing to say is that, if I convert them into string and save them on excel they come with 'dot' instead of comma. And If try to translate the 'dot' manually into 'comma' the excel gives warning message to turn those inputs into numbers. Which I also avoid. If this is Python default, showing all numbers smaller than 0.0001 with 'e' and there is no way to have them in both a human readable and excel savable form. what sould I do? Should I consider using another programming language? If yes, then this language could be callable from within python and I might do things I can. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
