On 19/03/2016 15:14, BartC wrote:
Which is about 3000 decimal digits, slightly more than 1KB in packed binary. In BCD it would be 1.5KB. At one-byte per digit (eg. ASCII) it's 3KB. At 4 bytes per (eg. UCS4), it's 12KB.
The comment refers to this which inexplicably got snipped (not my fault at all..):
[Steven D'Aprano:] >> Now, I routinely >> and without hesitation generate thousand-plus bit numbers like >> 2**10000, -- Bartc -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
