On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 08:56:16 +0200, Thomas Rachel wrote: > Am 27.10.2012 06:48 schrieb Dennis Lee Bieber: > >> I don't know about the more modern calculators, but at least up >> through my HP-41CX, HP calculators didn't do (binary) "floating >> point"... They did a form of BCD with a fixed number of significant >> /decimal/ digits > > Then, what about sqrt(x)**2 or arcsin(sin(x))? Did that always return > the original x?
I'd be impressed if it managed the latter, i.e. arcsin(sin(0))==0 while arcsin(sin(pi))==pi ;) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
