On 11/20/2013 11:34 AM, Kay Y. Jheallee wrote:
On 13.Nov.20.Wed 14:02, Steven D'Aprano wrote:> Hi Kay,
>
> You emailed me off-list, but your email address is bouncing or invalid,
> so I have no way to email you back.
So THAT's where it went! Sorry about that...yes, it WAS meant for the group
On 20/11/2013 19:34, Kay Y. Jheallee wrote:
Ah, that looks like just the puppy I'm looking for. :)
Okay then, I just installed the PortableApps version of Python,
but when I downloaded "mpmath-0.17.win32" the installer aborted with "No
Python installation found in the registry".
So I'm trying to
On 20/11/2013 19:59, Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 20/11/2013 19:34, Kay Y. Jheallee wrote:
Ah, that looks like just the puppy I'm looking for. :)
Okay then, I just installed the PortableApps version of Python,
but when I downloaded "mpmath-0.17.win32" the installer aborted with "No
Python installati
On 20/11/2013 19:34, Kay Y. Jheallee wrote:
Ah, that looks like just the puppy I'm looking for. :)
Okay then, I just installed the PortableApps version of Python,
but when I downloaded "mpmath-0.17.win32" the installer aborted with "No
Python installation found in the registry".
So I'm trying to
On 13.Nov.20.Wed 14:02, Steven D'Aprano wrote:> Hi Kay,
>
> You emailed me off-list, but your email address is bouncing or
invalid,
> so I have no way to email you back.
So THAT's where it went! Sorry about that...yes, it WAS meant
for the group :/!
> [you wrote]
> Okay,but after I import "
On 20 November 2013 14:02, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
>
> but alas, all the functions in the math module convert their arguments to
> float first, so even though your Decimal(1) could perform calculations to
> 75 decimal places, the math.atan function downgrades it to a regular
> float.
>
> Unfortunat
Hi Kay,
You emailed me off-list, but your email address is bouncing or invalid,
so I have no way to email you back.
Unless you have something private or personal to say, you should keep
replies on the list here so that others can either answer your questions
or learn from the responses. If you
On Mon, 18 Nov 2013 14:14:33 +, Kay Y. Jheallee wrote:
> Using 1/3 as an example,
[snip examples]
> which seems to mean real (at least default) decimal precision is limited
> to "double", 16 digit precision (with rounding error).
That's because Python floats actually are implemented as C do
