Python - How to convert decimal to scientific notation?

In your '40800000000.00000000000000' there are many more significant zeros that have the same meaning as any other digit. That's why you have to tell explicitly where you want to stop.

See tables from Python string formatting to select the proper format layout. In your case it's %.2E.

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