On Jul 9, 11:42?pm, Paul McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 9, 11:21 pm, "Jim Langston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> In Python 2.5 > on intel, the statement > > 2**2**2**2**2 > > evaluates to>>> 2**2**2**2**2 > > > 200352993040684646497907235156025575044782547556975141926501697371089405955 > > 63114 > > 530895061308809333481010382343429072631818229493821188126688695063647615470 > > 29165 > > 041871916351587966347219442930927982084309104855990570159318959639524863372 > > 36720 > > <snip> > > Exponentiation is right associative, so this is the same as: > > 2**(2**(2**(2**2))) > 2**2**2**4 > 2**2**16 > 2**65536 > > 2=10**0.3010, so 2**65536 is approx 10**19726 > > There are 19730 digits in your answer,
>>> import gmpy >>> n = 2**2**2**2**2 >>> gmpy.numdigits(n) 19729 Did you count the 'L'? >so this seems to be at least in > the ball park. > > -- Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
