"siggi" wrote: > Nope, I did not! But I used sqrt(9), and not math.sqrt(9). The latter works > excellent, thank you! From now on, I will use "import math" and > "math.fuction()" for EVERY mathematical function, even for pow() etc. just > to be on the safe side!
pow and math.pow are two slightly different things, though. pow() works on any type that supports power-of operations (via the __pow__ hook), while math.pow treats everything as a 64-bit float: >>> math.pow(2, 200) 1.6069380442589903e+060 >>> pow(2, 200) 1606938044258990275541962092341162602522202993782792835301376L pow also takes a third modulo argument (pow(x,y,z) is equivalent to pow(x,y) % z, but can be implemented more efficiently for certain data types). </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
