On Thursday, July 3, 2014 10:25:17 AM UTC+5:30, Gregory Ewing wrote: > Rustom Mody wrote: > > Just as there are even some esteemed members of this list who think > > that c - a is a meaningful operation > > where > > c is speed of light > > a is speed of an automobile
> Indeed, it should be (c - a) / (1 - (c*a)/c**2). > Although loss of precision might give you the > right answer anyway. :-) :-) Surprising how unfamiliar familiar equations like the Lorentz transformation look when converted from its usual mathematicerese and put into programmerese I like to think unicode would help. But I find it does not help much: (c-a)/(1 - ca/c²) [And I would have sworn there should be a √ somewhere? Dont remember any of this…] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
