Stefan Krah added the comment: Jurjen, this is very nice! -- Like Mark, I'm not sure if this should be in CPython.
Decimal (Python >= 3.3) has sneaked in a couple of fast bignum algorithms, so calculating and converting the latest Mersenne prime takes a couple of seconds: from decimal import * c = getcontext() c.prec = MAX_PREC c.Emax = MAX_EMAX c.Emin = MIN_EMIN x = Decimal(2)**74207281 - 1 s = str(x) assert s[:12] == "300376418084" assert s[-12:] == "391086436351" ---------- nosy: +skrah _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26256> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
