On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 05:20 -0800, christian schulze wrote: > [code] > >>> from math import e as e > >>> from math import sqrt as sqrt > >>> 2*e*sqrt(3) - 2*e == 2*e*(sqrt(3) - 1) > False > [/code]
> I was wondering what exactly is failing here. The math module? Python, > or the IEEE specifications? I'm not sure anything is failing as such - the "A==B" operator checks if values computed by the expressions A and B are equivalent - it doesn't check if the expressions are equivalent (which you'd obviously need algebra software to attempt). (from the rest of your email I'm assuming you know what's actually happening) Tim Wintle -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
