[Tutor] Rounding to n significant digits? (original) (raw)

Dick Moores rdm at rcblue.com
Fri Jul 2 03:41:22 EDT 2004


Alan Gauld wrote at 00:15 7/2/2004:

> ================================ > round( x[, n]) > > Return the floating point value x rounded to n digits after the decimal > ... > So that won't do it. "rounded to n digits AFTER the decimal point".

Oops, sorry I got caught out too. I don't know of anything that rounds to n significant digits. Looks ike you need to roll your own, although a quick search on Google or the Vaults of Parnassus might be worthwhile first since its a non trivial task...

I'll give it a try. But I am surprised that Python doesn't have what I want. It seems to have everything else..

Thanks,

Dick



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