Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> added the comment:
FWIW, the occasions where this mattered all involved a mix of multiplications and divisions that mostly cancel out. The quadratic formula example is typical: product([4.0, a, c, 1.0/b, 1.0/b]. Or a floating point implementation of comb(): product([1000, 999, 998, 997, 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, 1/1]) Or terms in series expansions where both the numerator and denominator have many factors. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue41458> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
