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Log-ish
I saw a post online this morning that recomended the transformation I could see how this could be very handy. Often you want something like a logarithmic scale, not for the exact properties of the logarithm but because it brings big numbers closer in. And for big values of x there's little difference between log(x) and
Naively computing sine
Suppose you need to write software to compute the sine function. You were told in a calculus class that this is done using Taylor series—it's not, but that's another story—and so you start writing code to implement Taylor series. How many terms do you need? Uh, …, 20? Let's go with that. from math import