Can't find the answer in the docs for 3.1
To print 123**34.6 to 5 sig digits,
print("%.*e" % (4, 123**34.6))
will do the job:
>>> print("%.*e" % (4, 123**34.6))
2.0451e+72
However, if the number is 123**346, using
print("%.*e" % (4, 123**346))
gets me
>>> print("%.*e" % (5, 123**346))
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#28>", line 1, in <module>
print("%.*e" % (5, 123**346))
OverflowError: Python int too large to convert to C double
So how to do it?
Thanks,
Dick Moores
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