32 bit or 64 bit?

Christian Meesters meesters at uni-mainz.de
Sun Jun 15 12:56:39 EDT 2008


Peter Otten wrote:
> 
> How did you determine that standard python floats are not good enough?
> Everything beyond that is unlikely to be supported by the hardware and
> will therefore introduce a speed penalty.
> 
> Did you try gmpy?
I would like to add: If Python's precision (or that of additional modules)
won't do it for you, look around what other people in the physics community
are using.

Christian



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