On Fri, 02 Sep 2016 18:18:08 +0200, Christian Gollwitzer wrote: > 1e26 denotes a *floating point number* Floating point has finite > precision, in CPython it is a 64bit IEEE number. The largest exact > integer there is 2**53 (~10^16), everything beyond cannot be accurately > represented.
Uh, that's wrong. All integers smaller than 2**53 can be represented exactly. Some, but not all, of the integers above 2**53 can be represented exactly. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
