Extending core Python with the Standard Library

In this video, I show how we can extend core Python with functionality imported from the standard library. As examples, we import the math and random modules and look at a couple of interesting functions.

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The lecture is based on the free book "Introduction to Python & Programming".

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Alexander Hess, PhD Student
WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar, Germany

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When you talked about the limited size of the memory and that flowing objects usually have the same number of digits when they are infinite, you explained that there are usually 13 to 14 digits after the period dot. The example in the video shows 15 digits, and in the "Volume of a Sphere" exercises, our results never showed more than 10 digits. How come?