I get a very short delay when doing the calculation. 1.90734863281e-06 to be precise.
But, printing the result takes much longer. 4.82930707932 seconds. On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 6:47 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 15 December 2017 at 13:25, ast <nomail@com.invalid> wrote: > > On my computer it takes roughtly 4 s, mesured with a watch. > > Is your computer particularly old? On my PC, the time it takes to run > x=123456**123456 at the Python interpreter prompt is barely > noticeable. > > > I can't do "len(str(x))" to know the size, I have to kill the process > > Took a few seconds (5-10s) on my PC, and returned 628578. > > > But x.bit_length() answers 2088091, so x should have about > > 600000 digits > > Yep, that's what I get > > > > > If I measure execution time: > > > >>>> t=time(); x=123456**123456; print(time()-t) > > > > 0.0 > > Same here. > > > There is still something wrong > > As far as I can see, it's in your manual measurement. All of the code > you've provided gives the same results on my PC as on yours, but your > manual measurements differ drastically from mine (and my manual > measurements match what I'd expect given results of timeit/time.time > whereas yours don't...). > > Paul > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- **** Listen to my FREE CD at http://www.mellowood.ca/music/cedars **** Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA ** EMAIL: b...@mellowood.ca WWW: http://www.mellowood.ca -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
