"Andre' Walker-Loud" <walksl...@gmail.com> wrote
a = 0.00762921383941
ea = 0.000830132912068
a / ea
9.190352205653852
By default, I will print the uncertainty ("ea") with two significant
digits.
In this example, the central value is about 10 times larger than the
uncertainty, so I want to print it with 3 significant figures.
I don't understand why the difference but if the deciding factor is
related
to the ratio why bother with all the string stuff? Just use the ratio
directly...
p = int(("%.1e" % (a / ea)).split('e')[-1]) # grab the power in the
scientific notation (is there a better way?)
if p >= 0:
Why not just
limit = 10
n = 3 if a/ea <= limit else n = 2 # or whatever expression is needed
to calculate n
fmt = "%.%de + %.1e" % n else:
print fmt % (a, ea)
But I suspect I'm missing something in your reasoning about what size
of n you want.
--
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
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