Ben Siders wrote: > You'll be waiting a long time. Perl quickly moves into scientific > notation and can handle arbitrarily large values. I wrote a similar > program a while back and got bored with it when the count hit about > 10^17. :)
if you don't want to wait but still want to try to push Perl to its limit: [panda@dzhuo]# perl -e 'print 12x2*2,"\n"' 2424 [panda@dzhuo]# perl -e 'print 45x99*2,"\n"' 9.09090909090909e+197 really: [panda@dzhuo]# perl -Mbigint -e 'print 45x99*2,"\n"' 909090909090909090909090909090909090909090909090909090909090909090909090909090909090909090909090909090909090909090909090909090909090909090909090909090909090909090909090909090909090909090909090909090 increase the number and give it a few tries. david -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
