On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Bill Cunningham <nospam@nspam.invalid> wrote: > Does Python have good mathematical capabilities? I am interested in > learning a second language for mathematical purposes. I am considering > looking at python, perl, fortran, Adas out. It looked too complicated to > learn. Perl looked easy and I haven't really looked into python.
Absolutely it does! In the built-in types, your integer has arbitrary precision, and there is an arbitrary-precision Decimal type in the standard library. There is also, naturally, a standard set of trig functions and so on. With additional libraries, you can get numeric and scientific functionality (lots of which is written in Fortran, as I understand it), giving incredibly high performance for a high level language; look into SciPy and NumPy. Strongly recommend Python for numeric work. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list