Convert a scientific notation to decimal number, and still keeping the data format as float64

[doganadres at gmail.com]

On Friday, October 18, 2019 at 2:21:34 PM UTC+3, Richard Damon wrote:
> On 10/18/19 4:35 AM, doganadres at gmail.com wrote:
> > Here is my question:
> >
> >
> > I am using the numpy.std formula to calculate the standart deviation. However, the result comes as a number in scientific notation.
> > Therefore I am asking, How to convert a scientific notation to decimal number, and still keep the data format as float64 ?
> >
> > Or is there any workaround to get the initial standart deviation result as a decimal number?
> >
> >
> > Here is my code:
> >
> > stdev=numpy.std(dataset)
> > print(stdev)
> >     Result: 4.999999999999449e-05
> >
> >
> > print(stdev.dtype)
> >     Result: float64
> >
> >
> > Solutions such as this:
> >
> > stdev=format(stdev, '.10f')
> > converts the data into a string object! which I don't want.
> >
> >
> > Expected result: I am willing to have a result as a decimal number in a float64 format.
> >
> > System: (Python 3.7.4 running on Win10)
> >
> >
> > Regards, 
> 
> The number itself isn't in scientific notation or a fixed point number,
> but is a floating point number that is expressed internally as an
> integer times a power of 2 (that is the basic representation format for
> floating point).
> 
> Scientific notation vs fixed point notation is purely an OUTPUT
> configuration, not a function on how the number is stored (so in one
> sense IS more closely linked to a string than the float itself).
> 
> -- 
> Richard Damon


Hello Richard,

You seem so right. But what will we do with those strings with 'e' in it?

There are ways to present those in a 'normal' way with formatting. However, the result of those formatting turns them into str object and which limits you to do any further numerical things with them.

Another thing which I have observed, while doing some experimental thing is that:

>>> 0.0
0.0

>>> 0.1
0.1

>>> 0.01
0.01

>>> 0.001
0.001

>>> 0.0001
0.0001

>>> 0.00001
1e-05

Again another thing with 1e-05! instead of 0.00001 , Is there anything I can do about it?