On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 15:58:02 +0200, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > Mok-Kong Shen wrote: > >> I like to compute log base 2 of a fairly large integer n but >> with math.log(n,2) I got: >> >> OverflowError: long int too large to convert to float. [snip] > Or maybe our idea of "fairly large" differ; so how large is fairly large?
MK Shen used to hang out on the sci.crypt newsgroup, so we're probably talking "cryptographically large" rather than "engineeringly large". -- To email me, substitute nowhere->spamcop, invalid->net. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
