"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Jul 27, 1:27 pm, Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Robert Dailey wrote: >> > Is there build-in or third party support for large integer types, such >> > as 96 or 128 bits in size? I require such large sizes for precision >> > issues (nanoseconds). Thanks. >> >>> SECOND = 10**9 >> >>> YEAR = 365*24*60*60 >> >>> 2**128/SECOND/YEAR >> >> 10790283070806014188970L >> >> What are you measuring? The age of the universe? In nanoseconds? >> >> :-) > >Well, 2**96 would only be 2512308552583 years.
Yes, but that's still roughly 100 times the estimated age of the universe. -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
