Michiel Overtoom wrote: > > On Oct 22, 2014, at 12:29, Peter Otten wrote: > >> That looks like log(a) while a parity check takes constant time: >> $ python3 -m timeit -s 'a = 10**10' 'a & 1' > > > Do you mean 'parity' as in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parity_bit ? > Because a parity bit denotes whether the *number* of '1' bits is even or > odd, not the value of the least significant bit.
No, I meant the lsb. The OP introduced the term 'parity'; not sure if that was erroneous, too, or if there is an angle to the problem that escapes me. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list