On Tue, 03 May 2011 21:04:07 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > And that, Your Honour, is why I prefer bignums (especially for integers) > to floating point. Precision rather than performance.
I'm intrigued by your comment "especially for integers", which implies that you might use bignums for non-integers. Out of curiosity, how would you calculate: sin(sqrt(7)*pi/31) using bignums? -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
