Title: Display Scientific Notation As Floats
Slug: display_scientific_notation_as_floats
Summary: How to display a number in scientific notation as a float.
Date: 2017-09-01 12:00
Category: Python
Tags: Basics
Authors: Chris Albon

Create Values



In [1]:

    
# Create a numbers in scientific notation
value_scientific_notation = 6.32000000e-03

# Create a vector of numbers in scientific notation
vector_scientific_notation = [6.32000000e-03,
                              1.80000000e+01,
                              2.31000000e+00,
                              0.00000000e+00,
                              5.38000000e-01,
                              6.57500000e+00,
                              6.52000000e+01,
                              4.09000000e+00,
                              1.00000000e+00,
                              2.96000000e+02,
                              1.53000000e+01,
                              3.96900000e+02,
                              4.98000000e+00]

Display Values As Floats



In [2]:

    
# Display value as a float
'{:f}'.format(value_scientific_notation)









    Out[2]:





'0.006320'



In [3]:

    
# Display vector values as floats
['{:f}'.format(x) for x in vector_scientific_notation]









    Out[3]:





['0.006320',
 '18.000000',
 '2.310000',
 '0.000000',
 '0.538000',
 '6.575000',
 '65.200000',
 '4.090000',
 '1.000000',
 '296.000000',
 '15.300000',
 '396.900000',
 '4.980000']