On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 5:33 AM, Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev <python-dev@python.org> wrote: > On 05/07/2017 20:05, Mark Dickinson wrote: > >> Oh, and you'd have to rewrite the power algorithm, which currently >> depends on the size of a limb in bytes being a multiple of 5. :-) >> > > What is a limb, as my search foo has let me down?
A thing that has a bunch of digits, but fits inside a machine word. https://gmplib.org/manual/Nomenclature-and-Types.html ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
