[Python-ideas] Add the imath module

[Stephan Houben]

Should we call sort then probable_sort, since the non-zero probability
exists of it going wrong due to a stray cosmic ray?

It's pointless to worry about failure modes which are order of magnitudes
unlikelier than hardware failure.

Stephan

Op vr 13 jul. 2018 14:45 schreef Jeroen Demeyer <J.Demeyer at ugent.be>:

> On 2018-07-13 14:11, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > What it *actually* does is:
> >
> >
> is_almost_certainly_prime_except_for_a_ludicrously_microscopic_chance_of_error_thousands_of_times_less_likely_than_a_stray_cosmic_ray_flipping_a_bit_in_memory_and_causing_the_wrong_result_to_be_returned()
>
> That's just a long variant of is_probable_prime()
>
> > If your bank is satisfied with "mere probable prime number" to transfer
> > billions of dollars around the world, then I'm sure that the users of
> > Python's std library should be too.
>
> That's besides the point. I agree that probable primes are good enough,
> just don't call them "prime".
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