[Python-ideas] Add the imath module

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 4:11 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> There is no reason why primality testing can't be deterministic up to
> 2**64, and probabilistic with a ludicrously small chance of false
> positives beyond that. The implementation I use can be expected to fail
> on average once every 18 thousand years if you did nothing but test
> primes every millisecond of the day, 24 hours a day. That's good enough
> for most purposes :-)

What about false negatives? Guaranteed none? The failure mode of the
function should, IMO, be a defined and documented aspect of it.

ChrisA