[Python-ideas] math.nextafter

[Chris Barker - NOAA Federal]

On Feb 24, 2017, at 10:28 AM, Mahmoud Hashemi <mahmoud at hatnote.com> wrote:

By the way, it looks like math doesn't have machine epsilon either:
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_epsilon
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> Pretty sure machine epsilon is in the sys module's float_info object.


Ahh, thanks! I though I remembered it was somewhere.

Or are you saying it would be handy to alias sys.float_info.epsilon over to
the math module too?


That might be a good idea, yes. Particularly if other related functions are
added as being discussed.

-CHB
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