On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:04:56 +0000, Albert van der Horst wrote: > In article <00b967e1$0$15623$c3e8...@news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano > <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> wrote: >>Nice work! But I have a question... >> >>On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:40:40 +0000, Albert van der Horst wrote: >> >>> def pi4(): >>> ' Calculate pi by a 5th order process, with favorable stop >>> criterion' >>> precision = 10e-20 >> >> >>Why do you say 10e-20 instead of 1e-19? > > No thought went into that. > Note that the error jumps from 1e-5 to 1e-25 between iterations, so > 1e-20 or 1e-19 hardly makes a difference.
Ah, then it's a typo -- you've written TEN e-20 instead of ONE e-20 in your code. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
