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IMHO.
But what do the experts here think?
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DaveInSidney wrote at 15:55 10/8/2005:
>Check out BestBookBuys:
>http://www.bestwebbuys.com/Python_and_Tkinter_Programming-ISBN_1884777813.html?isrc=b-search
Or even better, BestBookDeal.com:
<http://www.bestbookdeal.com/book/compare/1884777813>
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I need to figure out how to compute pi to base 12, to as many digits as
possible. I found this reference,
<http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Base.html>, but I really don't understand
it well enough. Could someone show me how to do what I need?
Thanks,
Dick Moores
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Bengt Richter wrote at 03:19 4/13/2005:
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 02:06:11 -0700, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I need to figure out how to compute pi to base 12, to as many digits as
>possible. I found this reference,
><http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Base.html>, but I re
you. I do have the first 1 or so
places of pi base 10 (<http://mathwithmrherte.com/pi_digits.htm>), but
could you show me what to do with, say, just 3.14159?
I apologize for being so dense.
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program do? It is not a sonnet, even not a
# pi-sonnet, but it surely produces Pi!
It sure does. When I ran it my jaw dropped. I had 7,947 CORRECT digits in
2 minutes 0 seconds (by my stopwatch)!
Now on to base 12.
Thanks!
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Dan wrote at 18:02 4/13/2005:
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 03:27:06 -0700, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I'm just trying to help an artist acquaintance who needs (I just
>learned) the first 3003 digits of pi to the base 12.
Now you've got me curious. Why would an arti
Paul Rubin wrote at 18:20 4/13/2005:
Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I need to figure out how to compute pi to base 12, to as many digits
> as possible. I found this reference,
> <http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Base.html>, but I really don't
> understand it we
Doug Schwarz wrote at 20:14 4/13/2005:
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dan wrote at 18:02 4/13/2005:
> >On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 03:27:06 -0700, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >wrote:
> >
> > > I'm just tr
Steve Holden wrote at 22:29 4/13/2005:
Dick Moores wrote:
Steve Holden wrote at 19:12 4/13/2005:
Dick Moores wrote:
Dan wrote at 18:02 4/13/2005:
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 03:27:06 -0700, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I'm just trying to help an artist acquaintance who needs (I
Dick Moores wrote at 18:40 4/14/2005:
Sorry about that. <http://www.kenjikojima.com/>
I just listened to Kojima's
"NEW
Chorus Pi (Japanese) / 2:28
Chorus: MacinTalk Voices. The music was created from the constant PI."
on that page. The vocal is singing the digits of base-10 pi
ontents of UnxUpdates.zip, which has many of the same filenames, to
the same directory. Should I just let Windows replace the old files with
the updated ones?
This seems obvious, but I wanted to make sure.
I'm using Win XP Pro.
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Tim Roberts wrote at 22:05 4/16/2005:
Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>># Reading/writing Python source often gives me the impression of
>># reading/writing a poem!
>># Layout, indentation, rythm, I like the look and feel!
>>
>># What does this
M.E.Farmer wrote at 23:18 4/14/2005:
> >Using the GNU "bc" utility:
> >
> > $ bc -l
> > bc 1.06
> > Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation,
Inc.
> > This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> > For details type `warranty'.
> > scale = 3000# number o
Roel Schroeven wrote at 01:45 4/17/2005:
Dick Moores wrote:
M.E.Farmer wrote at 23:18 4/14/2005:
> >Using the GNU "bc" utility:
> >
> > $ bc -l
> > bc 1.06
> > Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation,
Inc.
> > Thi
Bengt Richter wrote at 02:26 4/17/2005:
>Could someone remind me how to get the output of bc -l into a text file
>on Windows? (I've tried employing " > pi3003.txt" in various ways) OR,
>how to copy and paste from the command line window, or whatever that
>window is called? (Sorry for the OT questio
Paul Rubin wrote at 02:35 4/17/2005:
Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >C:\cygwin\bin\bc -l > pi12.txt
>
> But how or when do you enter the lines
>
> scale = 3000
> obase = 12
> print 4 * a(1)
You could put them into a file, say pi.bc. Then run
bc -l pi
Several months ago I saw an item on the O'Reilly site to the effect that
the 3rd. ed. of Programming Python was in the works. I made a note to
myself to check back in January. I just did, but could find nothing at
all about a 3rd. edition. Anyone know?
Thanks,
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Advice for him, please.
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At 01:10 PM 9/8/2006, Doug Stell wrote:
>Try www.TextPad.com. I've used it for years and love it. It
>understands many programming language constructs and can be taught to
>understand python so that things show up in color.
Any tips on how to teach TextPad to understand python?
At 02:15 PM 9/10/2006, Kent Johnson wrote:
>Dick Moores wrote:
> > At 01:10 PM 9/8/2006, Doug Stell wrote:
> >> Try www.TextPad.com. I've used it for years and love it. It
> >> understands many programming language constructs and can be taught to
> >> un
At 06:30 PM 9/10/2006, Kent Johnson wrote:
>Dick Moores wrote:
>
> > I downloaded Python (7) from
> > http://www.textpad.com/add-ons/synn2t.html and put the file
> > PythonV2.4.syn in C:\Program Files\TextPad 4\system .
> >
> > However, no syntax highlightin
t doesn't
seem to be very active.)
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At 08:51 AM 9/14/2006, stu wrote:
>Dick Moores wrote:
> > I'm trying out jEdit and UliPad. I got UliPad going right away and
> > I'm very pleased with it, but could I jump in here with a basic jEdit
> > question? How do you run a script?
> >
> > And on
Try:
for i in range(10,100):
f=1
max = int(i**.5 + 1)
for j in range(2,max):
if i%j==0:
f=0
break
else: continue
if f==1:
print i,
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How about SPE?
Any others?
And which ones do people
actually use? Commercial or Freeware.
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At 11:06 AM 5/9/2007, T. Crane wrote:
>Right now I'm using Notepad++. What are other people using?
Ulipad.
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he world's leading
educational publisher". Textbooks are typically expensive.
Here's the Amazon link:
<http://www.amazon.com/Object-Oriented-Programming-Python-Michael-Goldwasser/dp/0136150314>
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At 01:27 PM 7/28/2007, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:27:57 -0700, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
>
>
> > Well, the publisher is Prentice Hall, "The world's leading
> > educational publi
;Reilly site for the book, and look down the
>page for the link to the examples' source.
>
>Or (for Programming Python):
>
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/python2/
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/python3/
No CD with 3rd edition, but here are the examples:
<http://examples.oreilly.c
hat version 1.2.0 came out August 6 (the latest svn revision of
Ulipad already has it:
<
http://ulipad.googlecode.com/svn/> (Ulipad's developer, Limodou,
is very responsive).
Thanks,
Dick Moores
==
Bagdad Weather
<
http://weather
>>> () is ()
True
>>> (1,) is (1,)
False
Why?
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At 10:46 AM 8/9/2007, Bill Scherer wrote:
>Dick Moores wrote:
> > >>> () is ()
> > True
> > >>> (1,) is (1,)
> > False
> >
> > Why?
> >
>
> >>> a = ()
> >>> b = ()
> >>> c = (1,)
> >&
At 06:13 PM 8/9/2007, Ben Finney wrote:
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64Grzegorz
>SÅodkowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>theorisation but I'd rather expect the interpreter
> > simply not to create a second tuple while there already is an
> > identical one.
>
>Others have already sai
On 8/12/07, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > At 06:13 PM 8/9/2007, Ben Finney wrote:
> > >it's entirely left to the language implementation which
> > >optimisation trade-offs to make, and the
At 08:23 AM 8/12/2007, Steve Holden wrote:
>Dick Moores wrote:
> > So would a programmer EVER use "is" in a script?
>
>Sure. For example, the canonical test for None uses
>
> x is None
>
>because there is only ever one instance of type Nonetype, so it&#x
At 09:59 AM 8/12/2007, Steve Holden wrote:
>Dick Moores wrote:
> > At 08:23 AM 8/12/2007, Steve Holden wrote:
> >> Dick Moores wrote:
> >>> So would a programmer EVER use "is" in a script?
> >> Sure. For example, the canonical test for None uses
&g
I'm still trying to understand classes. I've made some progress, I
think, but I don't understand how to use this one. How do I call it,
or any of its functions? It's from the Cookbook, at
<http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/523048&
At 03:09 PM 8/12/2007, Steven Bethard wrote:
>Here's how I'd write the recipe::
>
> import itertools
>
> def iter_primes():
> # an iterator of all numbers between 2 and +infinity
> numbers = itertools.count(2)
>
> # generate primes forever
> while True
Thanks for your help. I didn't learn much about classes, but
appreciated your iter_primes() a lot!
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n returns "c". Is my indentation wrong,
or the code? It seems to me that the code should work for the general
case, not just for n >= base.
Dick Moores
How 'bout you hack a from_base function and email it back to me?
(hint: type 'help(int)' in the python interpret
At 07:04 PM 8/12/2007, Michael Bentley wrote:
>On Aug 12, 2007, at 6:28 PM, Dick Moores wrote:
>
>>n = 12
>>base = 36
>>print to_base(n, base)
>>==
>>This seems to work fine for n >= base, but not for n < base. For
't roll my own. I just preferred "n" to
"number". I greatly appreciated your code!
Dick
On 8/12/07, Dick Moores
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 07:04 PM 8/12/2007, Michael Bentley wrote:
>On Aug 12, 2007, at 6:28 PM, Dick Moores wrote:
>
her's website: <http://tinyurl.com/2dkhzg>
And at BestBookDeal.com:
< http://www.bestbookdeal.com/book/compare/1598631586>
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At 05:57 AM 8/14/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>On Aug 14, 7:05 am, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'd appreciate opinions about this new Python book.
> >
> > Title: Python Power!: The Comprehensive Guide
> > Author: Matt Telles
> > Publi
ditor/IDE ? A tiny precision, I am on Ubuntu so I am looking
>for a linux compatible editor.
I thought Ulipad WAS linux-compatible. Isn't it?
Dick Moores
XP, Python 2.5, editor is Ulipad
==
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<http://weather.yahoo
days date?
The question has already been well-answered, but since I've found
using the datetime module to be tough going, I was wondering if
either of these would be easier to understand and use:
1. <http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxBase/mxDateTime/>
I see that mxDateTime comes
not have a lot of the
>convenient features.
>
>I am wondering if there is anything more powerful than IDLE that can
>do this.
Are you sure you can't do this with Wing? Have you asked support,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>?
Dick Moores
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ns for new features. He's Chinese, in Beijing, so is on
Beijing time, but during his day he seems to check his mail often.
(Gmail users can see when he's using his Gmail account.) If you do
become a Ulipad user, I strongly suggest you subscribe to the Ulipad
list at Google Groups, <
At 09:42 AM 9/7/2007, wang frank wrote:
>Are there any way to speed it up?
How about psyco?
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closed
interval [1,M-N-1]), and return the first list the sum of which is M?
I don't understand what all the discussion is about. Time is not one
of the constraints.
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At 06:38 AM 3/10/2007, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 02:32:21 -0800, Dick Moores wrote:
>
> > So why not just repeatedly call a function to generate lists of
> > length N of random integers within the appropriate range (the closed
> > interval [1,M-N-1
At 02:52 AM 3/13/2007, Duncan Booth wrote:
>Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > But let's say there is one more constraint--that for each n of the N
> > positive integers, there must be an equal chance for n to be any of
> > the integers between 1 and
At 06:59 AM 3/13/2007, Anton Vredegoor wrote:
>Dick Moores wrote:
>
> > If the added constraint is instead that the probability of generating
> > a given list of length N be the same as that of generating any other
> > list of length N, then I believe my function
fixed
telegraph pole at N and a fixed telegraph pole at M, and you're given
5 more telegraph poles..." (Gerard Flanagan), but even now I can't
take it anywhere. I guess I'm just a dim bulb. (I thought I was a
fairly smart guy until I took up Python.)
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At 06:20 PM 3/13/2007, Paul Rubin wrote:
>Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I understand what zip() and random.sample() are doing, and the above
> > helps me get inside the fencepost method, but I don't understand WHY
> > it works, or how in the world any
SVN.
Is that what is meant? And if so, what's the URL of the trunk?
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At 01:32 AM 3/17/2007, Terry Reedy wrote:
>"Dick Moores" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>| May I ask a dumb question here? It isn't clear to me what to do with
>these patches. For most of them there is something like, "Committe
At 01:39 AM 3/27/2007, alain wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Could someone tell me how to uninstall SPE under windows?
Well, mine is in E:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\_spe, so I'd try
deleting that folder.
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#x27;ve installed can
>be uninstalled from control panel/add remove programs.
SPE doesn't show up on my win XP add/remove programs list.
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kinter at all (in the 4th edition at least)?
2) If it is good for learning Tkinter, can I get by with a cheaper,
used copy of the 3rd edition?
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t for Tkinker. There's a whole chapter,
"Tkinter GUIs" (46 pages!).
> Grayson's book is another reasonable alternative
>(and includes enough reference material to keep you from having to refer
>to the tcl/tk documentation very often).
One web tutorial that
le-turtle.html>)
But how could I have saved them "automatically"?
The script as shown will clear (T.clear() -- the 3rd line from the
bottom) the window after producing 6 to maybe 15 superimposed
triangles, so clearing will take place maybe 30 times. How can I save
as images each of the 30 windows just before they are cleared?
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At 03:43 AM 4/7/2007, James Stroud wrote:
>Dick Moores wrote:
> > At 10:36 AM 4/6/2007, Russell E. Owen wrote:
> >> I find Welch's book and the on-line tcl/tk help very helpful for Tkinter
> >> programming--especially some of the more obscure details. But to us
At 06:50 AM 4/7/2007, =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Wojciech_Mu=B3a?= wrote:
>Dick Moores wrote:
> > I accidentally stumbled across the Turtle Graphics module (turtle.py)
> > the other day and have been having some fun with it.
> >
> > Now I'm wondering if there is a way to b
At 08:48 AM 4/7/2007, =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Wojciech_Mu=B3a?= wrote:
>Dick Moores wrote:
> >> Turtle module uses Tk canvas element to draw graphics ('_canvas'
> >> attribute). I've written module, that exports canvas graphics to SVG
> >> file: http://wmu
At 09:31 AM 4/7/2007, =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Wojciech_Mu=B3a?= wrote:
>Dick Moores wrote:
> > What do I do to see this?
>
>For example Opera 9 and Firefox 1.5+ are able to view SVG files;
>there is a free plugin for IrfanView.
Ha. I had tried it with Firefox 2 already, but I st
<http://starship.python.net/crew/index.html>
I didn't check on all of them, but the only one I found was Mark
Hammond <http://starship.python.net/crew/mhammond/>.
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At 04:54 AM 10/5/2007, Thomas Heller wrote:
>Dick Moores schrieb:
> > <http://starship.python.net/crew/index.html>
> >
> > I didn't check on all of them, but the only one I found was Mark
> > Hammond <http://starship.python.net/crew/mhammond/>.
> &g
<http://www.redcanary.ca/view/top-programming>
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Windows XP Pro, Python 2.5.1
import msvcrt
while True:
if msvcrt.kbhit():
key = msvcrt.getch()
if key == 'Enter'
do something
Is there a way to catch the pressing of the 'Enter' key?
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At 04:29 AM 10/29/2007, Filip Wasilewski wrote:
>On Oct 29, 11:26 am, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Windows XP Pro, Python 2.5.1
> >
> > import msvcrt
> > while True:
> > if msvcrt.kbhit():
> > key = msvcrt.getch()
> >
At 09:53 AM 10/29/2007, Dick Moores wrote:
>At 09:26 AM 10/29/2007, Gabriel Genellina wrote:
> >On 29 oct, 09:23, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > >while True:
> > > > if msvcrt.getch() == '\r':
> > >
> > &
At 09:26 AM 10/29/2007, Gabriel Genellina wrote:
>On 29 oct, 09:23, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > >while True:
> > > if msvcrt.getch() == '\r':
> >
> > I tried it and find that without the msvcrt.kbhit the first key I hit
>
Reposting, deleting the [Possible SPAM] from the Subject: header.
At 03:23 PM 10/29/2007, Gabriel Genellina wrote:
>En Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:39:49 -0300, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
>
> > But here's a case where it seems I do need the
> >
> > i
At 03:23 PM 10/29/2007, Gabriel Genellina wrote:
>En Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:39:49 -0300, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
>
> > But here's a case where it seems I do need the
> >
> > if msvcrt.kbhit() line
>
>At least add a small sleep() call insi
At 06:34 PM 10/29/2007, Gabriel Genellina wrote:
>En Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:22:36 -0300, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
>
> > At 03:23 PM 10/29/2007, Gabriel Genellina wrote:
> >> En Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:39:49 -0300, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
rs>, or
reading the archive there.
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<http://rgruet.free.fr/PQR25/PQR2.5.html>
Is this reliable? (Looks good to me, but...)
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At 04:02 AM 2/3/2007, Robin Becker wrote:
>Dick Moores wrote:
> > <http://rgruet.free.fr/PQR25/PQR2.5.html>
> > Is this reliable? (Looks good to me, but...)
> >
>.
>
>I really like these for a good overview
So it looks accurate?
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Many programs are on both lists: Komodo, Eclipse, jedit, SPE, Wing IDE,
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not in range(128)"
I thought maybe it would help if I made the first line,
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
but that made no difference. Got the same error.
Can someone help me understand what's going on?
Thanks,
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Python IDE: Ulipad 3.6
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I'm the OP, and answering my own question. I received excellent advice
from the developer of Ulipad, Limodou.
On 2/10/07, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> a = [u'\u91cd', u'\u8981', u'\u6
hlighting, code completition, class browser, python comand line
>(>>>), traceback.
UliPad. <http://wiki.woodpecker.org.cn/moin/UliPad>
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calculator
"""
output:
4.9583278648155166864966558721921e+33
4.9583278648155041477415234438717e+33
"""
(Code is also at <http://python.pastebin.com/m72a277b8>)
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d type(s) for /: 'int' and 'Float'
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At 03:42 PM 11/18/2007, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 13:02:01 -0800, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
>
> >
> > This gets:
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >File "E:\PythonWork\Unt
At 04:26 PM 11/18/2007, Fredrik Johansson wrote:
>On Nov 19, 2007 1:05 AM, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi Dick, I recognize you from python-list, where you had a question
>about mpmath.
>
>Your code still won't work if you convert the numbers to Floats
At 04:26 PM 11/18/2007, Fredrik Johansson wrote:
>Basically, sympy.numerics is an old version of mpmath. The
>sympy.numerics module is not very well integrated in SymPy, slower
>than mpmath, and has a couple bugs that have subsequently been fixed
>in mpmath. In sympycore (http://code.google.com/p/
At 05:24 PM 11/18/2007, Fredrik Johansson wrote:
>On Nov 19, 2007 2:03 AM, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > At 04:26 PM 11/18/2007, Fredrik Johansson wrote:
> > >On Nov 19, 2007 1:05 AM, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >Hi Dick, I recogn
At 05:33 PM 11/18/2007, Fredrik Johansson wrote:
>On Nov 19, 2007 2:23 AM, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > OK, I tried mpmath again, and to my surprise, it went well!
> >
> > ===
> > #!/usr/bin/env python
> &g
3109668964239148908443317876138879647013995774.2951431466270782257597573259486687336246984942
"""
This is also on the web at <http://python.pastebin.com/f1a5b9e03>.
Examples of problem x's: 10, 20, 30, 40, 100, 101
Examples of OK x's: 0.2, 5, 10.1, 11, 33.3, 123.45
Thanks,
Dick Moores
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At 12:45 AM 11/20/2007, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:41:02 -0800, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
>
> > a way to get it to break where I want it to, i.e., when the sum
> > equals the limit as clos
At 03:53 AM 11/20/2007, Fredrik Johansson wrote:
>On Nov 20, 2007 8:41 AM, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm writing a demo of the infinite series
> >
> > x**0/0! + x**1/1! + x**2/2! + x**3/3! + ... = e**x (x is non-negative)
> >
> > I
At 10:42 AM 11/20/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Instead of comparing sum to the "known" value of e**x, why not test
>for convergence? I.e., if sum == last_sum: break. Seems like that
>would be more robust (you don't need to know the answer to computer
>the answer), since it seems like it should
At 01:32 PM 11/20/2007, Fredrik Johansson wrote:
>On Nov 20, 2007 10:00 PM, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > And also with the amazing Chudnovsky algorithm for pi. See
> > <http://python.pastebin.com/f4410f3dc>
>
>Nice! I'd like to suggest two
At 03:26 AM 11/25/2007, Fredrik Johansson wrote:
>On Nov 25, 2007 9:00 AM, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Fredrik,
> >
> > I'm afraid I'm just too dumb to see how to use your first suggestion
> > of cached_factorials. Where do I put it and
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