On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:50:11 -0800, Mensanator wrote: > I routinely use large numbers in my Collatz Conjecture work. > > Really large. As in a quarter million bits.
That's not large. *THIS* is a large number: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham's_number Unless you need special notation merely to describe how to generate the number, it's not a large number. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list