Raymond L. Buvel wrote: > I just tried this and it is taking an extremely long time even on a fast > machine with 4 Gb of RAM. Killed it after a couple of minutes.
You probably tried printing the value. a = 34564323**456356 (takes just 28 seconds) whereas b = str(a) takes forever! Regards Sreeram
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