Significant figures in the decimal module

Question

So I\'ve decided to try to solve my physics homework by writing some python scripts to solve problems for me. One problem that I\'m running into is that significant figures

Answer 1

If I undertand Decimal correctly, the "precision" is the number of digits after the decimal point in decimal notation.

You seem to want something else: the number of significant digits. That is one more than the number of digits after the decimal point in scientific notation.

I would be interested in learning about a Python module that does significant-digits-aware floating point point computations.