On Dec 28, 9:04 pm, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > In article <034921cf$0$1277$c3e8...@news.astraweb.com>, > Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> wrote: > > > 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. > > And then, after 'e was done nailing my head to the floor, he said, > "Consider an n-dimensional hypercube". It was at that point that I knew he > was talking about a really big number.
I remember it more like: And then, after 'e was done nailing my head to the floor, he said, "Consider an n-dimensional hypercube, Eric". It was at that point that I knew he was talking about a really big number, so I said "My names not Eric." -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
