math.nroot [was Re: A brief question.]

[Steven D'Aprano]

(All previous quoting ruthlessly snipped.)

A question for Tim Peters, as I guess he'll have the most experience in
this sort of thing.

With all the cross-platform hassles due to the various C compilers not
implementing the IEEE standard completely or correctly, I wonder how much
work would be involved for some kind soul to implement their own maths
library to do the lot, allowing Python to bypass the C libraries
altogether. 

Are you falling over laughing Tim, or thinking what a great idea?

What sort of work is needed? Is it, say, as big a job as maintaining
Python? Bigger? One weekend spent working solidly?



-- 
Steven.