[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> The calculation looks like this
>
> A = 0.35
> T = 0.30
> C = 0.25
> G = 0.10
>
> and then I basically continually multiply those numbers together. I
> need to do it like 200,000+ times but that's nuts. I can't even do it
> 1000 times or the number rounds off to 0.0. I tried taking the inverse
> of these numbers as I go but then it just shoots up to "inf".
>>> import gmpy
>>> A = gmpy.mpf('0.35')
>>> B = gmpy.mpf('0.30')
>>> C = gmpy.mpf('0.25')
>>> D = gmpy.mpf('0.10')
>>> result = gmpy.mpf(1)
>>> for n in xrange(200000):
... result *= A
... result *= B
... result *= C
... result *= D
...
>>> result
mpf('7.27023409768722186651e-516175')
It's reasonably fast, too. The above loop took a fraction of a second
to run on an oldish computer.
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