Re: [pygame] Why does my ball vibrate?

["David Gowers" <00ai99@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ian,

On Dec 4, 2007 6:18 AM, Ian Mallett <geometrian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> So, if our object masses 1kg., to move the Earth 1m/s., the object
> must move 199,120,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
> times the speed of light!  That's 199120*1trillion^84!  Had to do this
> mostly by hand, my calc doesn't handle this sort of thing, so it might
> not be terribly accurate...
> Ian
>
:)
This is a python related mailing list, ya know..


/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/IPython/Extensions/path.py:32:
DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead
  import sys, warnings, os, fnmatch, glob, shutil, codecs, md5
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/IPython/iplib.py:58:
DeprecationWarning: the sets module is deprecated
  from sets import Set
IPython 0.8.2   [on Py 2.6a0]
[~]|1> a = 199120
[~]|2> c = 84
[~]|3> b = 1000000000000
[~]|4> a * pow(b, c)
   <4> 1991200000000000000000000000000000
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Which is considerably larger than the figure you gave.