New submission from Bill McEachen <billyma...@excite.com>: from this link [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARI/GP#Usage_examples], I wanted to contrast arbitrary precision with the other pgm I use, Pari/GP. I tried the xample there which was: 123456! + 0. Now, behavior seems the same without the "+0." for both. However, while Pari returns the answer shown on link quickly, Python after a delay returned an error, related to float conversion. Here is the progression from a smaller number to the problem: >>> math.factorial(12) +0. 479001600.0 >>> math.factorial(123) +0. 1.214630436702533e+205 >>> math.factorial(1234) +0. Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> OverflowError: long int too large to convert to float >>>
---------- components: Regular Expressions messages: 123414 nosy: billymac00 priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Arbitrary precision type: behavior versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10629> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
