On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 11:51 PM, Mensanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 20, 10:05�pm, Stephen Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Carry bits? Who worries about carry bits when you have >> > unlimited precision arithmetic? You want cool? >> > THIS is cool: >> >> > j = ((invert(xyz[1]-xyz[0],xyz[1]**(k-1))*(xyz[1]**(k-1)-prev_gen[2])) >> > % xyz[1]**(k-1))/xyz[1]**(k-2) >> >> You call that "cool." I call it "unreadable." > > Ok, but not in the sense that something like > Scheme is unreadable as this is nothing but > algebra (albeit complicaed). >
Scheme doesn't *have* to be unreadable... any more unreadable than any other language when poorly documented/formatted, anyway. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list