bigfloat

I have installed the package bigfloat and the MPFR and GMP libraries. When I run python in the terminal (I use a Mac), bigfloat can be imported and works successfully. However, I typically write my scripts in iPython Notebook. When I try to import bigfloat here, it says 'module not found.' I have installed other packages such as SciPy, and using print scipy. file I see that it is located at //anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scipy/ init .pyc I'm not sure of how to check where bigfloat is located. From reading other peoples' installation issues, I am thinking that there might be more than

I'm trying to get the package 'bigfloat' installed on my Mac (OS X 10.8.4), and I'm running into some issues. The package 'bigfloat' requires two other dependencies: 1) mpfr, and 2) gmp. I've installed gmp here: http://gmplib.org/ <-- This seemed to work fine. But installing mpfr is not as easy ( http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-current/mpfr.html#Installing-MPFR ). They say to simply ./configure, make, and make install to get it going, but I get this error: checking for gmp.h... no configure: error: gmp.h can't be found, or is unusable. I've googled around and people suggest specifying paths in the

System.Numerics.BigInteger lets you multiply large integers together, but is there anything of the same type for floating point numbers? If not, is there a free library I can use? //this but with floats System.Numerics.BigInteger maxint = new BigInteger(int.MaxValue); System.Numerics.BigInteger big = maxint * maxint * maxint; System.Console.WriteLine(big); Perhaps you're looking for BigRational ? Microsoft released it under their BCL project on CodePlex. Not actually sure how or if it will fit your needs. It keeps it as a rational number. You can get the a string with the decimal value either