Piet van Oostrum <pie...@vanoostrum.org> writes: > doganad...@gmail.com writes: > >> I dont know much about scala actually. I have just have tried to give >> 0.0001 and it returned a presentation with an 'e' .whereas python takes >> 0.0001 and gives 0.0001 . it made me think python is better in that >> specific subject. >> >> However, python though starts to give 'e' number when 5 decimals are >> given as input. Although there can be systems around which are better in >> this subject other things I can achieve in python overrides some >> disadvantages. > > Yes, I would say Python is more user-friendly in this particular > example, although both outputs are correct. If I remember correctly, > Python had an update in the area several years ago to make the output > for floating-point numbers more user-friendly, (and at the same time > maybe even more correct). > > But these are just choices of the implementers of the language, not > characteristics of the language itself.
In Python 0.00001 => 1e-05, so it just chooses a different point to switch from pure decimal to scientific notation. -- Pieter van Oostrum <pie...@vanoostrum.org> WWW: http://piet.vanoostrum.org/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list