Python 2.0 and teaching precalculus

Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Sun Sep 10 05:23:51 EDT 2000


Kirby Urner wrote:

> def wiggle(function,input,epsilon=1e-10):
>     """
>     Accepts a function, value and returns delta f / delta x
>     for small epsilon (default of 1^-10 may be overridden)
	...

1 seems like a bad choice for an epsilon ... :-)

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