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. >-- >Steven Groetjes Albert -- -- Albert van der Horst, UTRECHT,THE NETHERLANDS Economic growth -- being exponential -- ultimately falters. alb...@spe&ar&c.xs4all.nl &=n http://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
