<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |> How did you determine that standard python floats are not good enough?
| I have a physical system set up in which a body is supposed to | accelerate and to get very close to lightspeed, while never really |attaining it. Just a thought. You might do better if you can rearrange your equations in terms of c-v instead of v. Letting c=1, you cannot accutrately express v = .99999999999999999999 in Python, but can easily express 1-v = .00000000000000000001. And so on. tjr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list