[Numpy-discussion] double-precision sqrt?
Dag Sverre Seljebotn
dagss at student.matnat.uio.no
Sat Oct 17 14:25:01 EDT 2009
Adam Ginsburg wrote:
> Hi folks,
> I'm trying to write a ray-tracing code for which high precision is
> required. I also "need" to use square roots. However, math.sqrt and
> numpy.sqrt seem to only use single-precision floats. Is there a
> simple way to make sqrt use higher precision? Alternately, am I
> simply being obtuse?
How are you actually using the results of sqrt? When printing the
results you may not get the full precision...try e.g.
print "%.50f" % np.sqrt(np.float64( 1.034324523462345))
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Dag Sverre
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