kirby urner schrieb:
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 4:03 PM, kirby urner <kirby.ur...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Gregor Lingl <gregor.li...@aon.at> wrote:
...
That's fine (for the turtle). But if someone thinks that everything is
calculated
"correctly" now, she/he is bound to get disappointed. And that's the point
(imho).
Yes, it's a philosophical point. Doing it manually would be error
prone so the "correct" way is more science fiction or fantasy than a
reality.
The older ways of teaching math set up some false expectations, and
then when reality fails to make good, reality gets blamed, instead of
the broken metaphysics behind much of "modern" math.
Kirby
Regards,
Gregor
# Author: Gregor Lingl
# amended to use Decimal by Kirby Urner 2009-09-28
# re-corrupted to show the vainness (in principle) of kirby's effort
# fixed to show robustness of engineering solutions vs. imaginary
superpowers of non-existent math gods
2009-09-28
# Date: 2009-06-24
# A demonstration of chaos
from turtle import *
from decimal import Decimal
from turtle import *
from decimal import Decimal, getcontext
getcontext().prec = 50
:)
Kirby
Strategy of escalation? Arms race?
from turtle import *
from decimal import Decimal, getcontext
getcontext().prec = 50
k = Decimal('3.9')
N = 250
That's what I meant with (in principle)
Gregor
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