title: Confusion in Pandas User's Guide
body: <p>I am bit lost in Pandas User's Guide's Chapter Essential Basic Functionality:<a href="https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/user_guide/basics.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/user_guide/basics.html</a></p>
  <p>In the link above, I am trying to follow/learn the Section &quot;Applying elementwise functions&quot;. My confusion is that the example here shows that the value 1.394981 has a length of 18 (instead of 8). On what basis? I know the len and str functions well and when I ran the same same thing on console, I got the answer that I expect:</p>
  <pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; print(len(str(1.394981)))
  8
  </code></pre>