On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Tim Roberts t...@probo.com wrote:
morphex morp...@gmail.com wrote:
While we're on the subject, wouldn't it be nice to have some cap there so
that it isn't possible to more or less block the system with large
exponentiation?
There IS a cap. It's called the
On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:39:56 +, Alex wrote:
Given that
3
5
4
(i.e.: 4**5**3) is transitive,
I think you meant associative, and exponentiation isn't associative,
i.e. (x**y)**z is not, in general, equal to x**(y**z). In fact, (x**y)**z
is equal to x**(y*z).
Conventional
On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 21:45:30 -0700, Tim Roberts wrote:
morphex morp...@gmail.com wrote:
While we're on the subject, wouldn't it be nice to have some cap there
so that it isn't possible to more or less block the system with large
exponentiation?
There IS a cap. It's called the MemoryError
In article 51590a2b$0$3$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com,
Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote:
Concrete examples of transitive relations: greater than, equal to, less
than and equal to.
Will Python 4 implement less than and equal to? :-)
[Warning: topic creep]
morphex morp...@gmail.com wrote:
While we're on the subject, wouldn't it be nice to have some cap there so
that it isn't possible to more or less block the system with large
exponentiation?
There IS a cap. It's called the MemoryError exception.
But, seriously, what would you have it do
Hi.
I was just doodling around with the python interpreter today, and here is the
dump from the terminal:
morphex@laptop:~$ python
Python 2.7.3 (default, Sep 26 2012, 21:53:58)
[GCC 4.7.2] on linux2
Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information.
1**2
1
1**2**3
1
1**2**3**4
On 03/31/2013 02:56 AM, morphex wrote:
Hi.
I was just doodling around with the python interpreter today, and here is the
dump from the terminal:
morphex@laptop:~$ python
Python 2.7.3 (default, Sep 26 2012, 21:53:58)
[GCC 4.7.2] on linux2
Type help, copyright, credits or license for more
On Sat, 30 Mar 2013 23:56:46 -0700, morphex wrote:
Hi.
I was just doodling around with the python interpreter today, and here
is the dump from the terminal:
morphex@laptop:~$ python
Python 2.7.3 (default, Sep 26 2012, 21:53:58) [GCC 4.7.2] on linux2
Type help, copyright, credits or
On 03/31/2013 03:33 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Sat, 30 Mar 2013 23:56:46 -0700, morphex wrote:
Hi.
I was just doodling around with the python interpreter today, and here
is the dump from the terminal:
morphex@laptop:~$ python
Python 2.7.3 (default, Sep 26 2012, 21:53:58) [GCC 4.7.2] on
Aha, OK. Thought I found a bug but yeah that makes sense ;)
While we're on the subject, wouldn't it be nice to have some cap there so that
it isn't possible to more or less block the system with large exponentiation?
On Sunday, March 31, 2013 9:33:32 AM UTC+2, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Sat,
On 03/31/2013 08:07 AM, morphex wrote:
Aha, OK. Thought I found a bug but yeah that makes sense ;)
While we're on the subject, wouldn't it be nice to have some cap there so that
it isn't possible to more or less block the system with large exponentiation?
There's an assumption there. The
In article 5157e6cc$0$29974$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com,
Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote:
For what it's worth, that last intermediate result (two to the power of
the 489-digit number) has approximately a billion trillion trillion
trillion trillion trillion
In article 8276eff6-9e5c-4060-b9e8-94fab6062...@googlegroups.com,
morphex morp...@gmail.com wrote:
Aha, OK. Thought I found a bug but yeah that makes sense ;)
While we're on the subject, wouldn't it be nice to have some cap there so
that it isn't possible to more or less block the system
In article mailman.4012.1364733818.2939.python-l...@python.org,
Dave Angel d...@davea.name wrote:
I'm typing this while a terminal is open doing the particular operation,
and the system doesn't seem in the least sluggish.
Currently the memory used is at 10gig, and while there are some
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Roy Smith r...@panix.com wrote:
$ prtstat 29937
Process: mongodState: S (sleeping)
[...]
Memory
Vsize: 1998285 MB
RSS: 5428 MB
RSS Limit: 18446744073709 MB
If I counted the digits right, that 1.9 TB. I love the RSS
Dave Angel wrote:
On 03/31/2013 02:56 AM, morphex wrote:
1**2
1
1**2**3
1
1**2**3**4
1L
1**2**3**4**5
Traceback (most recent call last):
File stdin, line 1, in module
MemoryError
Does anyone know why this raises a MemoryError? Doesn't make sense
to
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Alex foo@email.invalid wrote:
Dave Angel wrote:
On 03/31/2013 02:56 AM, morphex wrote:
1**2
1
1**2**3
1
1**2**3**4
1L
1**2**3**4**5
Traceback (most recent call last):
File stdin, line 1, in module
MemoryError
Does anyone
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 9:28 AM, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Alex foo@email.invalid wrote:
Really?
The Python 3 documentation
(http://docs.python.org/3/reference/expressions.html) says in section
6.14 (Evaluation order) that Python evaluates
On 03/31/2013 06:06 PM, Alex wrote:
Dave Angel wrote:
On 03/31/2013 02:56 AM, morphex wrote:
1**2
1
1**2**3
1
1**2**3**4
1L
1**2**3**4**5
Traceback (most recent call last):
File stdin, line 1, in module
MemoryError
Does anyone know why this raises a MemoryError? Doesn't make
Chris Angelico wrote:
Opening paragraph, ... exponentiation, which groups from right to
left. It follows the obvious expectation from mathematics. (The OP is
using Python 2, but the same applies.)
Thanks. I did miss that parenthetical comment in para 6.15, and that
would have been the
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Alex foo@email.invalid wrote:
Given that
3
5
4
(i.e.: 4**5**3) is transitive, I would have expected Python to exhibit
more consistency with the other operators. I guess that is one of the
foolish consistencies that comprise the hobgoblins of my little
On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:39:56 +, Alex wrote:
Chris Angelico wrote:
Opening paragraph, ... exponentiation, which groups from right to
left. It follows the obvious expectation from mathematics. (The OP is
using Python 2, but the same applies.)
Thanks. I did miss that parenthetical
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