On 2006-06-18, Sybren Stuvel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > nate enlightened us with: >> Obviously I didn't have enough memory for that, but I was able to c**3. >> (I think anyways, it is still trying to display the result) >> >> So I am just wondering how long an integer can be with 400 megabytes of >> memory. > > I guess the best way would be a binary search for the proper value of > the integer. You already have an upper (c**d) and a lower (c**3) bound > for your search. > >> each integer takes up a byte right? > > That depends on the size of the integer, doesn't it? > >> If I have 400 megabytes that would mean I could have a long integer >> with up to 419,430,400,000 integers? > > Que? An integer is just a whole number without fraction. What are you > talking about?
He's talking about decimal digits. Each decimal digit takes up 3.322 bits. A byte can hold about 2.4 digits. 400MB should be able to hold an integer with about 1,010,000,000 decimal digits. -- Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
