On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 21:26:06 -0800 (PST), pendrysamm...@gmail.com wrote: > If it is then show him this > > 387,420,489 >= > 00110011 00111000 00110111 00101100 00110100 00110010 00110000 0 ...
To save the casual reader a moment of disorientation, the above binary string is just the ASCII representation of the text string "387,420,489". > 9^9 = ⬇️ (^ = to the power of) >= 387,420,489 > > But > > 9^9 >= > 00111001 01011110 00111001 Similarly, this is the ASCII representation of "9^9". Our self-confessedly intermittently sober correspondent appears to have discovered the backside of the principle that a short text expression can generate a large number. -- To email me, substitute nowhere->runbox, invalid->com. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
