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While investigating the history of logarithms, I ran into a problem
with precision. Going from there the solution was to use software
that allowed the specification of the degree of precision.
The addon for the C language was called gmp/mpfr but there was also a
nice application called pari/gp available free
http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/download.html
It is easy to install on windows or linux and has a simple shell
interpreter similar to the python interpreter. For quick
trigonometric calcuations like spherical it is quite good. C
programmers use the gmp/mpfr libraries.
On 9/7/05, Cliff Sojourner <> wrote:
> George,
>
> here's another thumb's up for Python. it has the best features of
> interpreted languages, and it's efficiently executed even on modest
> machines. you can write "regular" (procedural) programs in it or you
> can write object oriented code.
>
> Python has a huge user community, contributing support for everything
> from unit-equation checking libraries to arbitrary precision arithmetic
> libraries (if you exceed the limits of IEEE floating point) to graphics,
> guis, etc.
>
> navigation content: I wrote a sight reduction program in Python. it
> works just fine.
>
>
>
> Chuck Taylor wrote:
>
> >George,
> >
> >I see that Python and JavaScript have both been
> >recommended by others. To elaborate a bit:
> >
> >Python is an interpreted language as is Basic). You
> >can download it for free from
> >
> > http://www.python.org/
> >
> >There is documentation on line, but there are also
> >many 3rd-party books on Python programming available
> >through the usual sources.
> >
> >
>
