"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 base
2**15. Now it uses Karatsuba multiplication and some very mild tricks
for exponentiation, I believe.
> The only real documention for stuff like this, other than random posts on
> c.l.p., is the source code itself. It is generally pretty readable.
Unfortunately, longobject.c is not one of the most readable bits :-(
It's not too bad, but it's no work of art.
Cheers,
mwh
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