Chris Angelico writes: > On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 12:26 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: >> {This response is delayed as I'm waiting for the program to complete so I >> can get the run time} >> {Well... it's been near 24 hours and still merrily scrolling sums on my >> console -- so I'm going to kill the running program} > > Eight BILLION of them. I wouldn't bother waiting for that.
Eight billion is a big number. I know from experience that computers can compute a big number of computations in a short time. Therefore, I would expect the computer to compute eight billion computations in a short time. Maybe. Apparently some big numbers are more big than others. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list