Re: [sympy] Fibonacci Reverse Calculation?

2016-04-09 Thread Amy Valhausen
Hi Aaron! I have been trying to follow your suggestions to try mpmath.phi & sympy.GoldenRatio but I keep getting command line errors when I try to reference these. When I enter this at the command line for example ; (1/GoldenRatio**4*514229).evalf() It errors out - I suspect I am not

[sympy] Re: Arbitrary Precision Problem Persists

2016-04-09 Thread casevh
On Saturday, April 9, 2016 at 11:56:01 AM UTC-7, Amy Valhausen wrote: > > In the thread ; https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sympy/eUfW6C_nHdI > > I was seeking feedback and help with the problem of type ; > > ( 1.414213562^6000) % 400) > > After reviewing all the excellent collaboration at

[sympy] Re: Arbitrary Precision Problem Persists

2016-04-09 Thread Amy Valhausen
Hi Case, thanks for your reply - in the thread cited ; https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sympy/eUfW6C_nHdI The impression I get (please keep in mind Im a newbie), was that most of the gentleman came to the conclusion that floats of any kind used for this problem would result in data loss

[sympy] Re: Arbitrary Precision Problem Persists

2016-04-09 Thread Amy Valhausen
They also told me and described in length how using the float will cause data loss as it cuts values off when they get too big, there was a discussion of float32, float96, float 128 issues - someone says supposedly a float 128 could solve the problem but then this cant actually be used as

[sympy] Arbitrary Precision Problem Persists

2016-04-09 Thread Amy Valhausen
In the thread ; https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sympy/eUfW6C_nHdI I was seeking feedback and help with the problem of type ; ( 1.414213562^6000) % 400) After reviewing all the excellent collaboration at the above link, Im feeling a little lost and overwhelmed. So many good suggestions