A logarithm is a mathematical operation that is the inverse of exponentiation. It answers the question: to what exponent must a given base be raised to produce a certain number? Here we use brute ...

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 ...

Want faster number-crunching in Python? You can speed up your existing Python code with the Numba JIT, often with only one instruction. Python is not the fastest language, but lack of speed hasn’t ...