[Edu-sig] Re: arbitrary precision computing in K-12

2020-01-29 Thread kirby urner
Yes, I've especially used gmpy2 and met the maintainer at a user group, worked at Mentor Graphics as I recall, and was collaborating with Alex Martelli on getting Python such a library. Most of my Jupyter Notebooks exploring high precision are using that. Trig built right in, and complex

[Edu-sig] Re: arbitrary precision computing in K-12

2020-01-29 Thread Wes Turner
There's a three.js renderer for 3D graphics in Sage: https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/plot3d/ On Wed, Jan 29, 2020, 5:21 PM Wes Turner wrote: > You've probably already considered SymPy or Sage (which is installable > with conda now)? > > >

[Edu-sig] Re: arbitrary precision computing in K-12

2020-01-29 Thread Wes Turner
You've probably already considered SymPy or Sage (which is installable with conda now)? https://docs.sympy.org/1.5.1/modules/evalf.html : >>> N(sqrt(2)*pi, 5) 4.4429 >>> N(sqrt(2)*pi, 50) 4.4428829381583662470158809900606936986146216893757 https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/Dependencies : >

[Edu-sig] Re: arbitrary precision computing in K-12

2020-01-29 Thread kirby urner
More concretely, and continuing the arbitrary precision thread, one might think Python, with its clever duck typing, could take either floating point, or standard library Decimals, through precisely the same algorithm. That's so in some cases, but when we get to powering, one can't use the