On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:34:07 -0700, Chris Rebert wrote: > The difference is that it handles complex numbers, whereas the plain > "math" module doesn't. > I would guess the reason there are separate modules is for performance, > so as to avoid having to dispatch on type at runtime. But this is only a > guess.
My understanding is that it is to avoid people who don't care about complex numbers being confused when math.sqrt(-1) returns 1j instead of raising an error. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
