Hello Baishampayan, On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 1:13 AM, Baishampayan Ghose <b.gh...@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, if any of you folks >> know something concrete, I would appreciate it. > > I have given a cursory glance to the Python code base and I think I > know how it's implemented :) > > My findings are here - > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/867393/how-do-languages-such-as-python-overcome-cs-integral-data-limits/870429#870429 > > I would appreciate a few up-votes if you deem my answer to be satisfying :-p
I have given a +1 vote, I would have given one more, if SO allowed it. But, Thanks! Best, Amit -- Journal: http://amitksaha.wordpress.com IRC: cornucopic on #scheme, #lisp, #math, #linux "Recursion is the basic iteration mechanism in Scheme" --- http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TailRecursion _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
