On Dec 28 2008, 4:55 pm, jerry.carl...@gmail.com wrote: > > - are you usingDecimalfor the base-10-ness or the > > extra precisionDecimalprovides? Or significant zeros? > > Or compatibility with existingDecimalcode, or what? > > Oh boy, now I will finally prove myself illiterate... well, so be it. > But i am after the extra precision: > > >>> from math import * > >>> (1+1e-16)-1 > > 0.0
> > Agree: sin, cos and atan would do it. FYI, mpmath (http://code.google.com/p/mpmath/) implements arbitrary- precision standard transcendental functions in pure Python. It is much faster than decimal, dmath, decimalfuncs and AJDecimalMathAdditions, and handles huge arguments just fine. Fredrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
