Python - Scientific Notation

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Python uses a traditional programming notation for scientificfic notation.

The notation:

• <m>6.022e23</m>

  denotes the value

  <m>6.02*10^23</m>

  ,

• <m>6.626e-34</m>

  denotes the value

  <m>6.626*�10^-34</m>

  .

Since Python uses limited-precision arithmetic, there are round-off errors:

>>> 1e16 + 1
1e16