On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 5:02 AM, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > 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.
Since the OP just wrote "parity", not "parity bit", I would assume they meant as in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parity_(mathematics) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
