Chris Angelico writes: > Hang on hang on, transcendental quantities are still finite. It may > take an infinite sequence to fully calculate them, but they are finite > values. We're not talking about pi here, we're talking about treating > "infinity" as a value. You can certainly do arithmetic on pi.
Arithmetic, yes, I guess, but not correct trigonometry: >>> from math import tan, pi >>> tan(pi/2) 1.633123935319537e+16 That's infinitely wrong in mathematics! Or 293 orders of magnitude, if you prefer IEEE, where inf == 1e309 :-) _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/AX77HEFHIIGOGARJKVQVJ67Y6CEZNHQQ/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
