How to get numbers after decimal point?

Question

How do I get the numbers after a decimal point?

For example, if I have 5.55, how do i get .55?

Answer 1

5.55 % 1

Keep in mind this won't help you with floating point rounding problems. I.e., you may get:

0.550000000001

Or otherwise a little off the 0.55 you are expecting.

Answer 2

Use modf:

>>> import math
>>> frac, whole = math.modf(2.5)
>>> frac
0.5
>>> whole
2.0

Answer 3

What about:

a = 1.3927278749291
b = a - int(a)

b
>> 0.39272787492910011

Or, using numpy:

import numpy
a = 1.3927278749291
b = a - numpy.fix(a)

Answer 4

Using the decimal module from the standard library, you can retain the original precision and avoid floating point rounding issues:

>>> from decimal import Decimal
>>> Decimal('4.20') % 1
Decimal('0.20')

As kindall notes in the comments, you'll have to convert native floats to strings first.

Answer 5

An easy approach for you:

number_dec = str(number-int(number))[1:]

Answer 6

Try Modulo:

5.55%1 = 0.54999999999999982

Answer 7

To make it work with both positive and negative numbers: try abs(x)%1. For negative numbers, without with abs, it will go wrong.

5.55 % 1

output 0.5499999999999998

-5.55 % 1

output 0.4500000000000002

Answer 8

import math
orig = 5.55
whole = math.floor(orig)    # whole = 5.0
frac = orig - whole         # frac = 0.55

Answer 9

similar to the accepted answer, even easier approach using strings would be

def number_after_decimal(number1):
    number = str(number1)
    if 'e-' in number: # scientific notation
        number_dec = format(float(number), '.%df'%(len(number.split(".")[1].split("e-")[0])+int(number.split('e-')[1])))
    elif "." in number: # quick check if it is decimal
        number_dec = number.split(".")[1]
    return number_dec

Answer 10

>>> n=5.55
>>> if "." in str(n):
...     print "."+str(n).split(".")[-1]
...
.55

Answer 11

Just using simple operator division '/' and floor division '//' you can easily get the fraction part of any given float.

number = 5.55

result = (number/1) - (number//1)

print(result)

Answer 12

Sometimes trailing zeros matter

In [4]: def split_float(x):
   ...:     '''split float into parts before and after the decimal'''
   ...:     before, after = str(x).split('.')
   ...:     return int(before), (int(after)*10 if len(after)==1 else int(after))
   ...: 
   ...: 

In [5]: split_float(105.10)
Out[5]: (105, 10)

In [6]: split_float(105.01)
Out[6]: (105, 1)

In [7]: split_float(105.12)
Out[7]: (105, 12)

Answer 13

Another example using modf

from math import modf
number = 1.0124584

# [0] decimal, [1] integer
result = modf(number)
print(result[0])
# output = 0124584
print(result[1])
# output = 1

Answer 14

This is a solution I tried:

num = 45.7234
(whole, frac) = (int(num), int(str(num)[(len(str(int(num)))+1):]))

Answer 15

Float numbers are not stored in decimal (base10) format. Have a read through the python documentation on this to satisfy yourself why. Therefore, to get a base10 representation from a float is not advisable.

Now there are tools which allow storage of numeric data in decimal format. Below is an example using the Decimal library.

from decimal import *

x = Decimal('0.341343214124443151466')
str(x)[-2:] == '66'  # True

y = 0.341343214124443151466
str(y)[-2:] == '66'  # False

Answer 16

Easier if the input is a string, we can use split()

decimal = input("Input decimal number: ") #123.456

# split 123.456 by dot = ['123', '456']
after_coma = decimal.split('.')[1] 

# because only index 1 is taken then '456'
print(after_coma) # '456'

if you want to make a number type print(int(after_coma)) # 456

Answer 17

Use floor and subtract the result from the original number:

>> import math #gives you floor.
>> t = 5.55 #Give a variable 5.55
>> x = math.floor(t) #floor returns t rounded down to 5..
>> z = t - x #z = 5.55 - 5 = 0.55

Answer 18

Example:

import math
x = 5.55
print((math.floor(x*100)%100))

This is will give you two numbers after the decimal point, 55 from that example. If you need one number you reduce by 10 the above calculations or increase depending on how many numbers you want after the decimal.

Answer 19

import math

x = 1245342664.6
print( (math.floor(x*1000)%1000) //100 )

It definitely worked

Answer 20

Another option would be to use the re module with re.findall or re.search:

import re


def get_decimcal(n: float) -> float:
    return float(re.search(r'\.\d+', str(n)).group(0))


def get_decimcal_2(n: float) -> float:
    return float(re.findall(r'\.\d+', str(n))[0])


def get_int(n: float) -> int:
    return int(n)


print(get_decimcal(5.55))
print(get_decimcal_2(5.55))
print(get_int(5.55))

Output

0.55
0.55
5

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How to get rid of additional floating numbers in python subtraction?

Answer 21

You can use this:

number = 5.55
int(str(number).split('.')[1])

Answer 22

This is only if you want toget the first decimal

print(int(float(input()) * 10) % 10)

Or you can try this

num = float(input())
b = num - int(num) 
c = b * 10
print(int(c))

Answer 23

Using math module

speed of this has to be tested

from math import floor

def get_decimal(number):
    '''returns number - floor of number'''
    return number-floor(number)

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Example:

n = 765.126357123

get_decimal(n)

0.12635712300004798

Answer 24

def fractional_part(numerator, denominator):
    # Operate with numerator and denominator to 
# keep just the fractional part of the quotient
if  denominator == 0:
      return 0
  else:
       return (numerator/ denominator)-(numerator // denominator)  
 

print(fractional_part(5, 5)) # Should be 0
print(fractional_part(5, 4)) # Should be 0.25
print(fractional_part(5, 3)) # Should be 0.66...
print(fractional_part(5, 2)) # Should be 0.5
print(fractional_part(5, 0)) # Should be 0
print(fractional_part(0, 5)) # Should be 0

Answer 25

a = 12.587
b = float('0.' + str(a).split('.')[-1])

Answer 26

What about:

a = 1.234
b = a - int(a)
length = len(str(a))

round(b, length-2)

Output:
print(b)
0.23399999999999999
round(b, length-2)
0.234

Since the round is sent to a the length of the string of decimals ('0.234'), we can just minus 2 to not count the '0.', and figure out the desired number of decimal points. This should work most times, unless you have lots of decimal places and the rounding error when calculating b interferes with the second parameter of round.

Answer 27

You may want to try this:

your_num = 5.55
n = len(str(int(your_num)))
float('0' + str(your_num)[n:])

It will return 0.55.

Answer 28

number=5.55
decimal=(number-int(number))
decimal_1=round(decimal,2)
print(decimal)
print(decimal_1)

output: 0.55

Answer 29

See what I often do to obtain numbers after the decimal point in python 3:

a=1.22
dec=str(a).split('.')
dec= int(dec[1])

Answer 30

If you are using pandas:

df['decimals'] = df['original_number'].mod(1)

Answer 31

I've found that really large numbers with really large fractional parts can cause problems when using modulo 1 to get the fraction.

import decimal

>>> d = decimal.Context(decimal.MAX_PREC).create_decimal(
... '143000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000.1231200000000000000002013210000000'
... )
...
>>> d % 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
decimal.InvalidOperation: [<class 'decimal.DivisionImpossible'>]

I instead grabbed the integral part and subtracted it first to help simplify the rest of it.

>>> d - d.to_integral()
Decimal('0.1231200000000000000002013210')

Answer 32

def fractional_part(numerator, denominator):
    if denominator == 0:
        return 0
    else:
        return numerator / denominator - numerator // denominator

print(fractional_part(5, 5)) # Should be 0
print(fractional_part(5, 4)) # Should be 0.25
print(fractional_part(5, 3)) # Should be 0.66...
print(fractional_part(5, 2)) # Should be 0.5
print(fractional_part(5, 0)) # Should be 0
print(fractional_part(0, 5)) # Should be 0

Answer 33

Late in the party, leaving comment for new visitors. If you know you need only 2 decimal places then you can use inbound round

round(1.15 % 1, 2)

Answer 34

I tried a lot of the other solutions but none of them work for me.

In my case, I have different operations and always in the last step, my result has more than the expected decimals.

For example, if you do:

61 * 0.1 the result is the float 6.1000000000000005

To get the 6.1 we have to parse the default float (at least in my case with 64bits) to a lower one:

import numpy as np    

x = 61 * 0.1
y = np.float32(x)

If you have a lot of operations before, try to do the casting at the end :)

To answer better the original questions it would be:

import math
import numpy as np    

x_deci, x_inte = math.modf(5.55)
decimals = np.float32(x_deci)

and the result for the decimals is 0.55 instead of 0.5499999999999998

Answer 35

I was interested in the relative timing of the more sensible answers given here. Using this script on my laptop (MacBookPro16, 6-Core Intel Core i7 2.6 GHz):

#!/bin/sh

python3 -V
python3 -m timeit -s 'a = 5.55' 'b = a % 1'
python3 -m timeit -s 'a = 5.55' 'b = a - a//1'
python3 -m timeit -s 'a = 5.55; import math' 'b = a - math.floor(a)'
python3 -m timeit -s 'a = 5.55' 'b = a - int(a)'
python3 -m timeit -s 'a = 5.55; import math' 'frac, whole = math.modf(a)'

I get the following timing:

Python 3.9.10
10000000 loops, best of 5: 34.9 nsec per loop
5000000 loops,  best of 5: 51   nsec per loop
5000000 loops,  best of 5: 69.2 nsec per loop
5000000 loops,  best of 5: 84.1 nsec per loop
5000000 loops,  best of 5: 97.7 nsec per loop

So the simple % 1 seems the fastest approach

Answer 36

Try this def fuction

def decimales(n):
  n_int = int(n)
  n_int_len = len(int(str(n)))
  n_float = float(n)
  n_float_len = len(float(str(n)))
  n_decimal = n_float - n_int
  n_decimal_len = n_float_len - n_int_len
  n_decimal = round(n_decimal, n_decimal_len)
  return n_decimal

  

Answer 37

A solution is using modulo and rounding.

import math

num = math.fabs(float(5.55))
rem = num % 1

rnd_by =   len(str(num)) - len(str(int(num))) - 1

print(str(round(rem,rnd_by)))

Your output will be 0.55

Answer 38

Another crazy solution is (without converting in a string):

number = 123.456
temp = 1

while (number*temp)%10 != 0:
    temp = temp *10
    print temp
    print number

temp = temp /10
number = number*temp
number_final = number%temp
print number_final