On Tue, 18 Jan 2022 at 13:53, Samuel Lelievre <samuel.lelie...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2022-01-18 10:54:34 UTC, John Cremona:
> >
> > I see that there are now over 2^32 trac tickets.
>
> The power of two that is near 32000 is really 2^15.
> : )

You are right of course.  We had 16-bit arithmetic so the max was
32767 (and min -32768).  I still managed somehow to find the primes up
to 10^5 (using trial division, but I was only about 16, the programs
were on punched cards and I only got about one run a day which meant
that compiler syntax errors were very unwelcome.

I had better shut up.  You can always watch the video from a Sage Days
in 2011 (https://wiki.sagemath.org/days29)!

John

>
> > Wow. When I started computing you couldn't
> > have integers greater than 32767...
>
> Good thing we can now.
>
> Here's to many more Sage tickets to come!   --Samuel
>
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