It's a common joke that Python makes a great calculator in its interactive mode. You can make it an even better one with the built-in math module, which contains a lot of the same math functions you ...

The updated edition of Applying Math with Python will help you solve complex problems in a wide variety of mathematical fields in simple and efficient ways. Old recipes have been revised for new ...

Programming computers used to be harder. Don’t get us wrong — today, people tend to solve harder problems with computers, but the fundamental act of programming is easier. We have high-level languages ...

Returns the absolute value of a number x. If x is an integer or float, abs(x) returns x if x is positive or zero, and -x if x is negative. Returns x rounded to n digits after the decimal point. If n ...

print(math.ceil(pi)) # Round a number upward to its nearest integer print(math.floor(pi)) # Round numbers down to the nearest integer print(abs(pi)) #Return the ...

There are two ways numbers are represented internally - integers and floating point numbers. Even though the numbers 1 and 1.0 have the same value their internal representation are very different.

Many programming languages include libraries to do more complicated math. You can do statistics, numerical analysis or handle big numbers. One topic many programming languages have difficulty with is ...