Converting 5.223701009526849e-05 to 5e-05

[Chris Angelico]

On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 7:22 PM, Cecil Westerhof <Cecil at decebal.nl> wrote:
> Op Sunday 3 May 2015 10:40 CEST schreef Ben Finney:
>
>> Cecil Westerhof <Cecil at decebal.nl> writes:
>>
>>> When I have a value like 5.223701009526849e-05 in most cases I am
>>> not interested in all the digest after the dot.
>>
>> What type of value is it?
>
> If the absolute value is bigger as 0 and smaller as 1, it should be a
> float. ;-)

Or maybe a fractions.Fraction, or a decimal.Decimal, or a complex, or
maybe a RXSTRING or a Gmp.mpf! There's more than one way to store a
number...

ChrisA