On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Mark H. Harris <harrismh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> The decimal module implements IEEE 854 >> > > Thanks Terry... ... long time. > > I would like to find out if there is some iron-clad policy about extending > the implementation of an IEEE standard... decimal module in this case; I'm > just thinking that this particular extension really fits the python > "batteries included" philosophy. > > I guess what I'm really asking for are the same routines found in "bc -l" > math library. I've finally moved my number crunching stuff to python (from bc) > because the performance of "decimal" is finally way better than bc for the > moment, and wrapping python are the math routines for control and processing > is so much better. Anyway, sure would be nice to have a very speedy atan() > function built-in for decimal.
You might consider suggesting a "decimal.math" module on python-ideas. -- Zach -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
