Why Python 3?

[Gregory Ewing]

Richard Damon wrote:
> If you thing of the Standard Deviation being the Root Mean Norm2 of the
> deviations, it has a very similar meaning as to over the reals, a
> measure of the "spread" of the values.

NumPy appears to handle this:

http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.std.html

See the comment on that page about complex numbers.

So yes, it is meaningful and apparently people use it.

-- 
Greg