On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 10:23 AM Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 12:18 AM David Mertz <me...@gnosis.cx> wrote: > > Bonus points for anyone who knows the actual maximum size of Python ints > :-). > > Whatever the maximum is, it's insanely huge. > Want to share what the maximum actually is? I'm very curious! > Indeed. It's a lot bigger than any machine that will exist in my lifetime can hold. int.bit_length() is stored as a system-native integer, e.g. 64-bit, rather than recursively as a Python int. So the largest Python int is '2**sys.maxsize` (e.g. '2**(2**63-1)'). I may possibly have an off-by-one or off-by-power-of-two in there :-). -- Keeping medicines from the bloodstreams of the sick; food from the bellies of the hungry; books from the hands of the uneducated; technology from the underdeveloped; and putting advocates of freedom in prisons. Intellectual property is to the 21st century what the slave trade was to the 16th.
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