Christopher A. Craig wrote:
i needed to implement this myself and was thinking of storing the digits
of an integer in a list.
That's sort of what Python does except the "digits" are 15 bits,
not base 10. Doing it in base 10 would be a huge pain because of the
problems with base 10->base 2 conver
"I.V. Aprameya Rao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> i have been wondering, how does python store its very long integers and
> perform aritmetic on it.
In CPython, A long integer is a combination of a signed word
indicating the sign and the size and an unsigned array of N words
where N is the absol
"Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "I.V. Aprameya Rao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > i have been wondering, how does python store its very long integers and
> > perform aritmetic on it.
Well, up until fair recently it used "high school" arithmetic in
I.V. Aprameya Rao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i have been wondering, how does python store its very long integers and
> perform aritmetic on it.
>
> i needed to implement this myself and was thinking of storing the digits
> of an integer in a list.
>
> however this would be very slow for
On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 09:02:18 +0530, I.V. Aprameya Rao wrote:
> i have been wondering, how does python store its very long integers and
> perform aritmetic on it.
>
> i needed to implement this myself and was thinking of storing the digits
> of an integer in a list.
Uh, why? What possible enviro
I.V. Aprameya Rao wrote:
hi
i have been wondering, how does python store its very long integers and
perform aritmetic on it.
i needed to implement this myself and was thinking of storing the digits
of an integer in a list.
however this would be very slow for operations like division etc.
so if
"I.V. Aprameya Rao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> i have been wondering, how does python store its very long integers and
> perform aritmetic on it.
The only real documention for stuff like this, other than random posts on
c.l.p., is the source code itself. It i
