K.S.Sreeram wrote: > 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 >
If you really want all 3,440,299 digits, use the DecInt module.. http://home.comcast.net/~casevh/ Using Python 2.4.3 on a 1.4Ghz Celeron, a=DecInt(34564323) ** 456356 takes 20 seconds. astr=str(a) takes just over 1 second. With DecInt and GMPY, the running times are 6.9 seconds and 0.4 seconds respectively. casevh -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
