> > By the way, Robert -- who answered the previous email -- wrote _fast_float.
Yes, I know :) He's too modest. Okay, this helps a lot - this should take care of it, and helps me understand the syntax of both things. Thanks! - kcrisman +++++++++++++++++ Concluding unscientific postscript: This brings up a question I have asked before, about when to use (e.g.) _fast_float_ or polynomial rings or whatever... Is there a heuristic for when this should be done in *ordinary* code, i.e. not intended for inclusion in Sage and maybe even written in five minutes for class? It's clearly not always worth it or it would be ubiquitous, and I am puzzled as to why I needed it here (only 49 points, right?). Let me put it a slightly more pungent way, with respect. Suppose I am potential educational Sage user X, with not much time or programming experience but willing to try anything if it might help. I try the thing in the first email, and it really bites. Since I am only a potential Sage user, and I am not likely to email the support list (there are a lot of these, in my anecdotal experience), I just decide Sage isn't very useful for me and stick with my other options - whether those are Ms or just not using computers in class, which after all worked quite well for hundreds of years. Will the pynac symbolics take away all my problems, or will I still have to add this (completely incomprehensible to my students) _fast_float_ thing, and only that if I am persistent enough to find it by searching this group, the wiki, or the documentation for quite a while (assuming I didn't know that I was looking for something like this ahead of time)? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
