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Re: [pygame] Why does my ball vibrate?



On Dec 4, 2007 7:02 AM, David Gowers <00ai99@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
> 000000000000000000000000000000000000000
> 000000000000000000000000000000000000000
> 000000000000000000000000000000000000000
> 000000000000000000000000000000000000000
> 000000000000000000000000000000000000000
> 000000000000000000000000000000000000000
> 000000000000000000000000000000000000000
> 000000000000000000000000000000000000000
> 000000000000000000000000000000000000000
> 000000000000000000000000000000000000000
> 000000000000000000000000000000000000000
> 000000000000000000000000000000000000000
> 000000000000000000000000000000000000000
> 000000000000000000000000000000000000000
> 000000000000000000000000000000000000000
> 000000000000000000000000000000000000000
> 000000000000000000000000000000000000000
> 000000000000000000000000000000000000000
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> 00000L
>
>
> Which is considerably larger than the figure you gave.
>
Oops, of course it is. silly me. My earlier point stands, though.