On Jan 31, 4:48 pm, Dan Goodman <dg.gm...@thesamovar.net> wrote: > I don't think accuracy is too big a problem here actually (at least for > 13th roots). I just tested it with several hundred thousand random 100 > digit numbers and it never made a mistake.
Well, random numbers is one thing. But how about the following: >>> n = 12345**13 >>> n 154662214940914131102165197707101295849230845947265625L >>> int(n ** (1./13)) # should be 12345; okay 12345 >>> int((n-1) ** (1./13)) # should be 12344; oops! 12345 Mark -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
