In article <ik0rmr$ck4$1...@reader1.panix.com>, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> Python doesn't do equations. Python does floating point operations. More generally, all general-purpose programming languages have the same problem. You'll see the same issues in Fortran, C, Java, Ruby, Pascal, etc, etc. You'll see the same problem if you punch the numbers into a hand calculator. It's just the nature of how digital computers do floating point calculations. If you really want something that understands that: >>>> 2*e*sqrt(3) - 2*e == 2*e*(sqrt(3) - 1) you need to be looking at specialized math packages like Mathematica and things of that ilk. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
