On Monday, May 25, 2015 at 8:11:25 PM UTC-7, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Let's compare three methods. > ... > which shows that: > > (1) It's not hard to find mismatches; > (2) It's not obvious which of the three methods is more accurate.
Thank you; that is very helpful! I'm curious: what about the sqrt() function being last is detrimental? >From a point of ignorance it seems like we are just producing errors sooner, and then multiplying them, with this alternative method. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list