[HN Gopher] Napkin: Back-of-the-envelope calculations in Python
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       Napkin: Back-of-the-envelope calculations in Python
        
       Author : HammadB
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2024-10-08 17:48 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | divbzero wrote:
       | That's a creative use of a custom _2to3_ fixer [1] to transform
       | the calculations [2]. Too bad this will no longer work with the
       | removal of _2to3_ in Python 3.13.
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       | [1]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/2to3.html#fixers
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       | [2]:
       | https://github.com/rescrv/napkin/blob/e6a4de2/napkin/substit...
        
       | staplung wrote:
       | I don't want to knock anyone's project but I fail to see the way
       | in which this resembles back-of-the-envelope calculations (which
       | I take to mean, roughly, estimates RE order of magnitude). This
       | seems more like plain old arithmetic with some built-in units. Am
       | I missing something?
        
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