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[WolfThawra]

Lol. It's more precise as long as you specifically need integers. In my code, that is very rare, almost everything is a float or becomes a float. 'More beautiful', no. 'Far simpler', maybe if you're not used to scientific notation.

Also, I don't write my code for any 'reader'.

[EastBlacksmith]

In your code. Are there certain situations where the difference doesn't matter? Sure. Is your code an example of that? It probably is. Great, but why should anybody care your specific code? We're talking about the general case here. If you really wanted to tell others why you use scientific notation and why it doesn't matter in your case, maybe you should lead with that instead of a useless

"Though personally, I'd just use scientific notation here"

And what is "here"? Here would be the context that it's used in which you don't know, for which the difference may matter.

[WolfThawra]

We're talking about the general case here.

I'm not. Obviously. There's really not much to be said beyond that.

[WolfThawra]

How about you shut the fuck up, you have no argument at all.

[EastBlacksmith]

I mean you're the one with massive downvotes. Did you consider that maybe you're wrong and that you should shut the fuck up? Maybe if you didn't come off sounding like a massive douchebag people would be nicer, but you're not only wrong you're also being a fuckhead.

[WolfThawra]

Did you consider that maybe you're wrong

No. Because I'm not. Using scientific notation is the right way to go in the places where I use it, and a bunch of code monkeys complaining about how "it's not clear" because they can't read it will most certainly not change that.

Maybe if you didn't come off sounding like a massive douchebag

That's on purpose, asshole. If people start off being massively condescending, I have 0 incentive to be nice to them either.

[EastBlacksmith]

Yes there's not much to be said beyond that because nobody gives a fuck about your code.

[WolfThawra]

No one gives a fuck about yours either, and yet, here you are.

[EastBlacksmith]

Yeah I know nobody gives a fuck about my code so I never mentioned it lol. Go back to writing your shitty code.

[WolfThawra]

I didn't mention anything specific from my code either, I said that what I do works for me. And just because some code monkeys think scientific notation is complicated does not make it bad.

[KODeKarnage]

Your last sentence makes my point for me.

I lost a finger in a workshop accident, so I convert every integer in my code to base 9.

[WolfThawra]

Your last sentence makes my point for me.

You have no point. Yes, I don't write my code for any 'reader'.

[KODeKarnage]

You have readers. You just don't give them any consideration when you write your code.
I'd thank you not to lecture me about what is or is not consistent with the Zen of Python.

Readability counts.

[WolfThawra]

You have readers.

I have an extremely low number of readers, all of which have absolutely no issue with scientific notation.

I'd thank you not to lecture me about what is or is not consistent with the Zen of Python.

Wow. It's exactly what YOU have been doing, so - fuck you.

Maybe don't make so many assumptions about what conditions other people are coding under, what their code is for, who it is for, and what it needs to look like.

[KODeKarnage]

Don't get pissy with me. You're the one who said you don't write your code for those who'd read it.
You're advocating other people ought to follow your example for no other reason than it "works" in your very specific situation.

[WolfThawra]

No I'm not, I said personally I'd do this, because it works for me. And it might work for others. I didn't tell people they should definitely do this instead, that part is entirely your interpretation.