> I think the reason Mathematica was invoked is because it can do arbitrary > precision numerical integration, and a good test to see if the last couple > of digits are right is to compute the result to much higher precision. (We > do have arbitrary precision for lots of other stuff, but much of the > numerical stuff is to double precision only, which is the most useful and > lots faster.) > > - Robert
Thank you for that very clear answer! -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
