On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:12:24 +0200, Juho Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Anton Vredegoor wrote:
>>
>> Returning to the original book, why did they write a lot of it (at
>> least the first few pages until I gave up, after having trouble
>> understanding formulas about concepts I have no such trouble with when
>> framed in less jargonized from) in unintelligible mathemathical
>> notation when there's Python?
>>
>
>Because the intended audience is probably reads formulas better than
>they read Python. The 1st sentence of the Introduction: "This book is
>aimed at senior undergraduates and graduate students in Engineering,
>Science, Mathematics and Computing".
>
>Last month I spent about an hour trying to explain why
>a*2.5e-8 = x
>raises a SyntaxError and why it should be written
>x = a*2.5e-8
>The guy who wrote the 1st line has MSc in Physics from Cambridge (UK).
>In mathematics, there is no difference between the two lines.
ISTM probable that his original equation was really saying
assert a*2.5e-8 == x
which is not very different from
assert x == a*2.5e-8
Did you mention that "=" is not "==" in python?
I too would resist the idea that
assert a*2.5e-8 == x
"should be written as"
x = a*2.5e-8
Regards,
Bengt Richter
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