On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 2:12 AM, Peter Pearson <ppearson@nowhere.invalid> > wrote: >> MK Shen used to hang out on the sci.crypt newsgroup, so we're >> probably talking "cryptographically large" rather than "engineeringly >> large". > > So "fairly large" means somewhere between googolplex an Graham's > Number, and after that they'd be called "very large"?
I estimate that representing a googolplex as a 64-bit Python 3 int would require around 4.429 * 10**75 yottabytes of memory. So probably not that large. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list