sympy.nsimplify

2013-05-21 Thread Steven D'Aprano
For maths nerds like me, this is too cool for words: http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2013/04/30/recognizing-numbers/ -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: sympy.nsimplify

2013-05-21 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 6:26 PM, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: For maths nerds like me, this is too cool for words: http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2013/04/30/recognizing-numbers/ It is indeed, very cool. I think I need to conjure an excuse to use this someplace.

Re: sympy.nsimplify

2013-05-21 Thread Skip Montanaro
Very cool indeed. In the comments was a link to an XKCD cartoon. Its tool tip mentioned twin primes. Looked that up. Google pointed (of course) at Wikipedia. Read that. Backed up to the Google Search, and noticed there is a news item from 15 hours ago that an unknown mathematician at the

Re: sympy.nsimplify

2013-05-21 Thread Paul Rudin
Skip Montanaro s...@pobox.com writes: Very cool indeed. In the comments was a link to an XKCD cartoon. Its tool tip mentioned twin primes. Looked that up. Google pointed (of course) at Wikipedia. Read that. Backed up to the Google Search, and noticed there is a news item from 15 hours