On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Steven D'Aprano > <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> (If the machine is particularly >> simple -- you might be able to exactly simulate a lever in pure >> mathematics, but simulating, say, a nuclear bomb or a dialysis machine in >> mathematics is more of a challenge...) > > I can easily model a massless, frictionless, inelastic, infinitismally > thin lever. Beyond that, it gets complicated.
With what kind of precision? Geremy Condra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list