On 2006-06-18, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Que? An integer is just a whole number without fraction. What are you >> talking about? > > He's talking about decimal digits. Each decimal digit takes up > 3.322 bits. A byte can hold about 2.4 digits. 400MB should be > able to hold an integer with about 1,010,000,000 decimal > digits.
Oops. The real answer is 15/16 of that. I didn't realize that the integer representation only uses 15 of 16 bits. -- Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
