On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:54:37 -0800, Carl Banks wrote: > (I remember once struggling in a homework assignment over seemingly > large discrepancies in a calculation I was doing, until i realized that > the actual numbers were on the scale of 10**11, and the difference was > around 10**1, so it really didn't matter.)
Well that depends on the accuracy of the calculations, surely? If the calculations were accurate to one part in 10**20, then an error around 10**1 is about ten trillion times larger than acceptable. *wink* -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list