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Re: Python and Math

References <ll98g7$6o7$1@speranza.aioe.org>
Date 2014-05-18 13:33 +1000
Subject Re: Python and Math
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.10107.1400383990.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Bill Cunningham <nospam@nspam.invalid> wrote:
>     Does Python have good mathematical capabilities? I am interested in
> learning a second language for mathematical purposes. I am considering
> looking at python, perl, fortran, Adas out. It looked too complicated to
> learn. Perl looked easy and I haven't really looked into python.

Absolutely it does! In the built-in types, your integer has arbitrary
precision, and there is an arbitrary-precision Decimal type in the
standard library. There is also, naturally, a standard set of trig
functions and so on. With additional libraries, you can get numeric
and scientific functionality (lots of which is written in Fortran, as
I understand it), giving incredibly high performance for a high level
language; look into SciPy and NumPy. Strongly recommend Python for
numeric work.

ChrisA

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Python and Math "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-05-17 23:13 -0400
  Re: Python and Math Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-17 20:26 -0700
    Re: Python and Math "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-05-18 01:04 -0400
  Re: Python and Math Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-18 13:33 +1000
  Re: Python and Math Gary Herron <gary.herron@islandtraining.com> - 2014-05-17 21:12 -0700
  Re: Python and Math Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-05-18 04:51 +0000
    Re: Python and Math "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-05-18 01:33 -0400
    Re: Python and Math Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-05-18 09:25 -0400
      Re: Python and Math Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-05-18 15:05 +0100
  Re: Python and Math Wolfgang Keller <feliphil@gmx.net> - 2014-05-18 15:59 +0200
  Re: Python and Math Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-05-18 15:40 +0000
    Re: Python and Math "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-05-18 14:09 -0400
      Re: Python and Math Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-05-20 20:40 -0400
      Re: Python and Math Tony the Tiger <tony@tiger.invalid> - 2014-05-21 00:59 +0000
        Re: Python and Math Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2014-05-21 10:32 +0100
      Re: Python and Math Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2014-05-21 10:34 +0100
    Re: Python and Math Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2014-05-18 19:42 +0100
      Re: Python and Math Fabien <fabien.maussion@gmail.com> - 2014-05-19 12:15 +0200
        Re: Python and Math Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2014-05-19 11:30 +0100
        Re: Python and Math Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-19 05:46 -0700
          Re: Python and Math Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-19 23:09 +1000
            Re: Python and Math Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-19 06:15 -0700
              Re: Python and Math Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-19 23:24 +1000
              Re: Python and Math Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2014-05-19 10:22 -0400
        Re: Python and Math wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-05-19 07:56 -0700
          Re: Python and Math Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-19 09:09 -0700
            Re: Python and Math wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-05-19 12:07 -0700
              Re: Python and Math Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2014-05-19 20:18 +0100
                Re: Python and Math wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-05-20 02:19 -0700
                Re: Python and Math Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2014-05-20 11:13 +0100
                Re: Python and Math Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-20 04:20 -0700
                Re: Python and Math Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2014-05-20 12:55 +0100
                Re: Python and Math Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-20 07:14 -0700
                Re: Python and Math "Frank Millman" <frank@chagford.com> - 2014-05-20 14:51 +0200
                Re: Python and Math chris.barker@noaa.gov - 2014-05-21 16:14 -0700
                Re: Python and Math wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-05-21 23:52 -0700
                Re: Python and Math "Frank Millman" <frank@chagford.com> - 2014-05-22 11:04 +0200
                Re: Python and Math wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-05-20 06:42 -0700
                Re: Python and Math Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-20 07:23 -0700
              Re: Python and Math Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2014-05-20 09:03 +1000

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