Recursion or iteration (was Fibonacci series recursion error)

Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info
Tue May 3 08:49:50 EDT 2011


On Tue, 03 May 2011 21:04:07 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:

> And that, Your Honour, is why I prefer bignums (especially for integers)
> to floating point. Precision rather than performance.

I'm intrigued by your comment "especially for integers", which implies 
that you might use bignums for non-integers. Out of curiosity, how would 
you calculate:

sin(sqrt(7)*pi/31)

using bignums?



-- 
Steven



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