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 operations like division etc. > > so if anyone can point me to some links or some method on how to do this i > would appreciate it
Anyone interested in this subject should read SemiNumerical Algorithms D.E.Knuth, Addison-Wesley Its the bible for this area of computer science! Its also rather big and expensive so you'll probably want to look at in the library... -- Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
