When using Sage. my students really like using the n() method as in show(sqrt(2).n(digits=50)) giving the result rounded off to 50 decimal digits after the decimal point.
What I'm wondering is where does the n() method come from. Is it peculiar to Sage or Maxima or what? Is it pure python? The reason I ask is that some of my independent study student are using mpi4py in openMPI on a Linux Cluster they put together doing some simple Monte Carlo simulations and quadrature calculations. If n() is pure python, I'd like to give them the code so they can get more digits out of their simulations. Is this doable? What do you think? TIA, A. Jorge Garcia http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com — Sent from Mailbox -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
