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Re: Request for computer help.
From: J Cora
Date: 2005 Sep 8, 06:14 -0700
From: J Cora
Date: 2005 Sep 8, 06:14 -0700
While investigating the history of logarithms, I ran into a problem with precision. Going from there the solution was to use software that allowed the specification of the degree of precision. The addon for the C language was called gmp/mpfr but there was also a nice application called pari/gp available free http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/download.html It is easy to install on windows or linux and has a simple shell interpreter similar to the python interpreter. For quick trigonometric calcuations like spherical it is quite good. C programmers use the gmp/mpfr libraries. On 9/7/05, Cliff Sojournerwrote: > George, > > here's another thumb's up for Python. it has the best features of > interpreted languages, and it's efficiently executed even on modest > machines. you can write "regular" (procedural) programs in it or you > can write object oriented code. > > Python has a huge user community, contributing support for everything > from unit-equation checking libraries to arbitrary precision arithmetic > libraries (if you exceed the limits of IEEE floating point) to graphics, > guis, etc. > > navigation content: I wrote a sight reduction program in Python. it > works just fine. > > > > Chuck Taylor wrote: > > >George, > > > >I see that Python and JavaScript have both been > >recommended by others. To elaborate a bit: > > > >Python is an interpreted language as is Basic). You > >can download it for free from > > > > http://www.python.org/ > > > >There is documentation on line, but there are also > >many 3rd-party books on Python programming available > >through the usual sources. > > > > >