On Monday, May 25, 2015 at 1:27:24 PM UTC-7, Christian Gollwitzer wrote: > Wrong. Just use the built-in function Math.hypot() - it should handle > these cases and also overflow, infinity etc. in the best possible way. > > Apfelkiste:~ chris$ python > Python 2.7.2 (default, Oct 11 2012, 20:14:37) > [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple Clang 4.0 (tags/Apple/clang-418.0.60)] on darwin > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>> import math > >>> math.hypot(3,4) > 5.0 > > Christian
Thank you! :D I forgot about that one. I wonder how the sympy Point.distance method compares... -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
