On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > (If the machine is particularly > simple -- you might be able to exactly simulate a lever in pure > mathematics, but simulating, say, a nuclear bomb or a dialysis machine in > mathematics is more of a challenge...)
I can easily model a massless, frictionless, inelastic, infinitismally thin lever. Beyond that, it gets complicated. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list