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Replace decimals in floating point numbers

Someone on this platform has already helped me with generating the following code: This code ensures that the last decimal is not a 0 or a 9. However, I would like to have no 0’s nor 9’s in all the decimals that are generated (such that it will not be possible to have a number 1.963749 or 3.459007…

pd.read_csv() keep number of decimals

I want to read a csv but it culls the number of decimals: gives (first 2 rows, first five columns): enter image description here the original data (here) has 8 decimal places in the 3rd and 4th columns. I need those. 2211 196568.000 -25.732036008 28.282629130 1387.8994 2211 196569.000 -25.732032386 28.2826337…

How to use Python to convert an octal to a decimal

I had this little homework assignment and I needed to convert decimal to octal and then octal to decimal. I did the first part and could not figure out the second to save my life. The first part went like this: I read how to convert it here: Octal to Decimal, but I have no clue how to turn it

How to convert from decimal to a binary string?

The goal of this part of the lab is to motivate a right-to-left conversion of decimal numbers into binary form. Thus, you will end up writing a function numToBinary(anInteger) that works as follows: The code I have is: But this returns the string from left to right. Can anyone help me find a way to go from th…

How does Python babel round numbers?

I’m building a financial website with the Flask framework and I’m currently writing unit tests for it. I’m using the Babel package to format money amounts and I hit upon rather strange rounding behaviour. I would expect rounding to be up in case of a 5, or to at least be consistent. But look…