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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 14:58:50 -0600
Subject: Re: Coolest Python recipe of all time
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On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 2:48 PM, David Monaghan
<monaghand.david@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2 May 2011 10:33:31 -0700 (PDT), Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.co=
m>
> wrote:
>
>>I think it is time to give some visibility to some of the instructive
>>and very cool recipes in ActiveState's python cookbook.
>>
>>My vote for the coolest recipe of all time is:
>>
>> =A0 =A0http://code.activestate.com/recipes/365013-linear-equations-solve=
r-in-3-lines/
>
> Really cool, but wrong. x =3D 3234.667, not 3236.0

Nope, I get 3236.  Maybe you made a mistake somewhere.