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		scott_s on Nov 5, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Python in the Scientific World There is lots and lots of "dingy boiler room stuff" in scientific computing. What the math is doing is clean. Doing that as efficiently as possible in a computer is generally not.

easp on Nov 7, 2009 [–]

And there is all the data handling/mangling that needs to be done.

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