[Python-Dev] calculator module (original) (raw)

Gareth McCaughan gmccaughan at synaptics-uk.com
Thu Mar 11 06:02:17 EST 2004

On Wednesday 2004-03-10 18:33, Michael Hudson wrote:

Gareth McCaughan <gmccaughan at synaptics-uk.com> writes:

> Further, I'd argue that since Decimal can work with numbers of > arbitrary precision, an implementation of (say) exp that works on > Decimals ought to work with something like full precision, unless > it's only intended for casual use. Writing implementations of all > these things would be a considerable amount of work. Have you played with Jurgen Bos' real.py? I'm not sure it's useful, but I think you'll like it :-)

I think I have, some time ago. I also have something similar of my own written in Common Lisp.

-- g

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