On 02/24/2012 09:59 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > The C integer bit doesn't matter since e.g. > >>> > a=10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 > >>> a > 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000L > > And no, I'm not going to calculate how much memory I'd need to store a > string that's this long :)
Sure but that doesn't answer the question posed. How does Rick plan to represent an infinite integer? Obviously you've shown that with an infinite amount of memory we could do it quite easily. But baring that, how does Rick suggest we should represent an infinite integer? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list