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"**Note**: Click on \"*Kernel*\" > \"*Restart Kernel and Clear All Outputs*\" in [JupyterLab](https://jupyterlab.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) *before* reading this notebook to reset its output. If you cannot run this file on your machine, you may want to open it [in the cloud <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"../static/link/to_mb.png\">](https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/webartifex/intro-to-python/develop?urlpath=lab/tree/05_numbers/01_content.ipynb)."
"**Note**: Click on \"*Kernel*\" > \"*Restart Kernel and Clear All Outputs*\" in [JupyterLab](https://jupyterlab.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) *before* reading this notebook to reset its output. If you cannot run this file on your machine, you may want to open it [in the cloud <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"../static/link/to_mb.png\">](https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/webartifex/intro-to-python/main?urlpath=lab/tree/05_numbers/01_content.ipynb)."
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"The built-in [format() <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"../static/link/to_py.png\">](https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#format) function allows us to show the **significant digits** of a `float` number as they exist in memory to arbitrary precision. To exemplify it, let's view a couple of `float` objects with `50` digits. This analysis reveals that almost no `float` number is precise! After 14 or 15 digits \"weird\" things happen. As we see further below, the \"random\" digits ending the `float` numbers do *not* \"physically\" exist in memory! Rather, they are \"calculated\" by the [format() <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"../static/link/to_py.png\">](https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#format) function that is forced to show `50` digits.\n",
"\n",
"The [format() <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"../static/link/to_py.png\">](https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#format) function is different from the [format() <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"../static/link/to_py.png\">](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.format) method on `str` objects introduced in the next chapter (cf., [Chapter 6 <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"../static/link/to_nb.png\">](https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/webartifex/intro-to-python/blob/develop/06_text/00_content.ipynb#format%28%29-Method)): Yet, both work with the so-called [format specification mini-language <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"../static/link/to_py.png\">](https://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html#format-specification-mini-language): `\".50f\"` is the instruction to show `50` digits of a `float` number."
"The [format() <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"../static/link/to_py.png\">](https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#format) function is different from the [format() <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"../static/link/to_py.png\">](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.format) method on `str` objects introduced in the next chapter (cf., [Chapter 6 <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"../static/link/to_nb.png\">](https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/webartifex/intro-to-python/blob/main/06_text/00_content.ipynb#format%28%29-Method)): Yet, both work with the so-called [format specification mini-language <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"../static/link/to_py.png\">](https://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html#format-specification-mini-language): `\".50f\"` is the instruction to show `50` digits of a `float` number."
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"As seen in [Chapter 1 <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"../static/link/to_nb.png\">](https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/webartifex/intro-to-python/blob/develop/01_elements/00_content.ipynb#%28Data%29-Type-%2F-%22Behavior%22), the [.is_integer() <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"../static/link/to_py.png\">](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#float.is_integer) method tells us if a `float` can be casted as an `int` object without any loss in precision."
"As seen in [Chapter 1 <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"../static/link/to_nb.png\">](https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/webartifex/intro-to-python/blob/main/01_elements/00_content.ipynb#%28Data%29-Type-%2F-%22Behavior%22), the [.is_integer() <img height=\"12\" style=\"display: inline-block\" src=\"../static/link/to_py.png\">](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#float.is_integer) method tells us if a `float` can be casted as an `int` object without any loss in precision."
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