Paul Rubin wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > With Python you can't win, because Perl and Ruby allow for shorter > > programs. > > Python has native bignums, which should simplify a program like this > enormously. I don't know if Ruby has them. Perl doesn't, and if you > use some CPAN library that simulates them, that should count as part > of your program size.
Unfortunately: $ perl -Mbignum -e 'print 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890,"\n"' 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890 HP [EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/All Users/Documents/Python tutorial $ perl -v This is perl, v5.8.7 built for cygwin-thread-multi-64int (with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail) Yep my standard Cygwin perl installation for windows includes the bignum package. - Paddy. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list