ideas for the best way to do some math, please??

[Paul Hughett]

Ben Carrington <bjc32 at hermes.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

: i am trying to evaluate a reatively simple equation but i keep getting
: this error:

: overflowError: math range error

: ...pointing to math.log(p)
:         ...
:         #part3
: 	part3 = 1 - math.e**part2
: 	p = abs(part3)

: 	#part4
: 	part4i = math.log(p)
: 	part4ii = k*T*part4i
:         ...

I would suspect that p is zero, in which case the log is undefined (or
minus infinity, depending on your conventions).  If that's not the case,
print out the values of the various variables and show them to us.

Paul Hughett