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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