Hi all, Mateusz Rukowicz wrote:
> I wish to participate in Google Summer of Code as a python developer. I > have few ideas, what would be improved and added to python. Since these > changes and add-ons would be codded in C, and added to python-core > and/or as modules,I am not sure, if you are willing to agree with these > ideas. > > First of all, I think, it would be good idea to speed up long int > implementation in python. Especially multiplying and converting > radix-2^k to radix-10^l. It might be done, using much faster algorithms > than already used, and transparently improve efficiency of multiplying > and printing/reading big integers. > > Next thing I would add is multi precision floating point type to the > core and fraction type, which in some cases highly improves operations, > which would have to be done using floating point instead. > Of course, math module will need update to support multi precision > floating points, and with that, one could compute asin or any other > function provided with math with precision limited by memory and time. > It would be also good idea to add function which computes pi and exp > with unlimited precision. > And last thing - It would be nice to add some number-theory functions to > math module (or new one), like prime-tests, factorizations etc. Sorry for pitching in late, I was away for a while. I'd just like to point out in the context of this discussion: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ SAGE is a fairly comprehensive system built on top of python to do all sorts of research-level number theory work, from basic things up to unpronouncable ones. It includes wrappers to many of the major number-theory related libraries which exist with an open-source license. I am not commenting one way or another on your proposal, just bringing up a project with a lot of relevance to what you are talking about. Cheers, f _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
