On 2013-02-19, John Immarino <joh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks,Chris. I'm a newbie to Python and didn't realize that > it's not as good at number crunching as some of the others. It > does seem to do better than Basic with numbers in lists as > opposed to arrays in Basic.
Python is good enough at number crunching for Project Euler. Its data types and library make a few of the problems otherwise uninteresting, in fact. Sometimes, as in this case, memoization is good enough (a quick look at my own code for this shows that's what I did, too). But when it's a particularly good example of a Project Euler problem, you'll need to do some mathematical analysis to improve your approach, first. But yeah, do not get in the habit of comparing your times to, say, C++ programs. ;) -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
