On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 5:20 AM, Irmen de Jong <irmen.nos...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On 21-1-2015 18:59, Steve Hayes wrote: > >> 3. When I started to look at it, I found that strings could be any length and >> were not limited to swomething arbitrary, like 256 characters. > > Even more fun is that Python's primitive integer type (longs for older Python > versions) > has no arbitrary limitation either. > > That amazed me at the time I discovered python :)
I hadn't worked with length-limited strings in basically forever (technically BASIC has a length limit, but I never ran into it; and I never did much with Pascal), but you're right, arbitrary-precision integers would have impressed me a lot more if I hadn't first known REXX. So... is there a way to show that off efficiently? Normally, any calculation that goes beyond 2**32 has already gone way beyond most humans' ability to hold the numbers in their heads. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
