On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 10:58 AM, kirby urner <kirby.urner@gmail.com> wrote: << SNIP >>
print "K Module" print "K in tetravolumes: ", kvol * syn3 print "Rh Triacontrahedron: ", 120 * kvol * syn3
I'm now comparing output from this script on Ubuntu netbook Python 2.6 and WinXP HP desktop Python 3.1. Here's Python 3.1rc1 (r31rc1:73069, May 31 2009, 08:57:10): getcontext().prec = 31 T Module T in tetravolumes: 0.04166666666666666666666666666670 Rh Triacontrahedron: 5.000000000000000000000000000005 E Module E in tetravolumes: 0.04173131692777365429943951200165 Rh Triacontrahedron: 5.007758031332838515932741440198 K Module K in tetravolumes: 0.06250000000000000000000000000008 Rh Triacontrahedron: 7.500000000000000000000000000009 getcontext().prec = 50 T Module T in tetravolumes: 0.041666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666678 Rh Triacontrahedron: 5.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000013 E Module E in tetravolumes: 0.041731316927773654299439512001665297072526423571419 Rh Triacontrahedron: 5.0077580313328385159327414401998356487031708285702 K Module K in tetravolumes: 0.062500000000000000000000000000000000000000000000014 Rh Triacontrahedron: 7.5000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000018 Here's from Python 2.6 on Ubuntu Starling-1: Python 2.6.2 (release26-maint, Apr 19 2009, 01:56:41) [GCC 4.3.3] on linux2 getcontext().prec = 31 T Module T in tetravolumes: 0.04166666666666666666666666666670 Rh Triacontrahedron: 5.000000000000000000000000000005 E Module E in tetravolumes: 0.04173131692777365429943951200165 Rh Triacontrahedron: 5.007758031332838515932741440198 K Module K in tetravolumes: 0.06250000000000000000000000000008 Rh Triacontrahedron: 7.500000000000000000000000000009 getcontext().prec = 50 T Module T in tetravolumes: 0.041666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666678 Rh Triacontrahedron: 5.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000013 E Module E in tetravolumes: 0.041731316927773654299439512001665297072526423571419 Rh Triacontrahedron: 5.0077580313328385159327414401998356487031708285702 K Module K in tetravolumes: 0.062500000000000000000000000000000000000000000000014 Rh Triacontrahedron: 7.5000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000018 Note that 0.041666666... is our 1/24, the volume of T,A and B slices (tetrahedra) in Martian Math. Kirby --
from mars import math http://www.wikieducator.org/Martian_Math