On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 11:20 PM Stephen J. Turnbull <
[email protected]> wrote:

> It's getting the fiddly stuff right (numerical stability and accuracy,
> catching edge cases in algorithms) so that you can use it with
> confidence for work that has consequences if you get it wrong that (to
> me, anyway) would justify inclusion in the stdlib.
>

And for that, you want a robust, well supported library, like, say LAPACK,
or EIGEN, or ...., you know like what scipy uses ;-)

The python standard library really isn't the place for that kind of code.

However, a pure python implementation could, optionally, reach out to an
external lib for specific functionality like that though.

-CHB


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