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How to format huge reals?

print '{0:.3e}'.format(float(2.23799235765712699))
print '{0:.3e}'.format(float(2.23799235765712699e47675))

gives

2.238e+00
inf

Clearly what I want in the second case is 2.238e+47675.

How can I achieve this?

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