The main choices for arbitrary point precision seem to be mpmath (which is pure python) and GMP (C++ but with python wrapper; GMP is heavily used in academia)
Links: http://code.google.com/p/mpmath/ http://gmpy.sourceforge.net/ Katie -- CoderStack http://www.coderstack.co.uk The Software Developer Job Board
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