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. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list