On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 9:54 AM, David C. Ullrich <dullr...@sprynet.com> wrote: > Anyway, I don't know why you're jumping to the conclusion that it's > Python that's wrong here. Could be the math you learned in school > is wrong. I mean you're assuming that > > (*) a(b+c) = ab + ac > > but what makes you so certain (*) is correct? Have you tried it with > every possible value of a, b, and c? Or do you just blindly believe > everything your teacher told you or what? > > Seems to me you've stumbled on a counterexample to (*). I'm > gonna have to take this up with the mathematicians...
Or you could, you know, just check the proof: http://www.proofwiki.org/wiki/Real_Multiplication_Distributes_over_Addition -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
