David Hutto wrote:
<snip>
I'll probably ending up reading something about it later in the book,
but as a quick question, why does:
5e18 =5**18
False
int(5e18) =int(5**18)
False
1.01325e5 =1.01325**5
False
The 999e44 notation is intended to be similar to scientific notation,
where 44 is the exponent, in base 10.
So redoing your equalities:
5e18 == 5*(10**18)
int(5e18) == int(5 * 10**18)
1.01325e5 == 1.01325 * 10**5
The extra parens in the first case, and the extra spaces in the others, are
just for readability. It'd be just as correct to say:
1.01325e5 == 1.01325*10**5
DaveA
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