Alex, I assume you've looked at NumPy?
It has a bunch of math stuff written as a Python module in C. So its fast and proven correct. (Lawrence Livermore Labs wrote it I believe) It should do all the heavy lifting you need, and might even provide a full solution. Just a thought, Alan G. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor