Re: [BangPypers] MOM - Meeting on Sunday May 3rd

2009-05-15 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: [..] Can we get a show of hands? How many people plan to attend? If we're around 10 or so, I think the Barista is enough, otherwise, we'll think

[BangPypers] CPython's 'bignum' Implementation

2009-05-15 Thread Amit Saha
Hello all, So, from my SO question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/867393/how-do-languages-such-as-python-overcome-cs-integral-data-limits , I learn that Python has 'bignum' for supporting Arbitrary Precision arithmetic. Now, how does CPython implement bignum? From what I gather, there is

Re: [BangPypers] CPython's 'bignum' Implementation

2009-05-15 Thread Venkatraman S
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Amit Saha amitsaha...@gmail.com wrote: Now, how does CPython implement bignum? From what I gather, there is more than way of doing it- using a different radix (base), an array of numbers. One hint is given by http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0237/. However,

Re: [BangPypers] CPython's 'bignum' Implementation

2009-05-15 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Venkatraman S venka...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Amit Saha amitsaha...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0237/. However, if any of you folks know something concrete, I would appreciate it. Try searching in c.l.p - i

Re: [BangPypers] CPython's 'bignum' Implementation

2009-05-15 Thread Baishampayan Ghose
Now, how does CPython implement bignum? From what I gather, there is more than way of doing it- using a different radix (base),  an array of numbers. One hint is given by http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0237/. However, if any of you folks know something concrete, I would appreciate it. I