<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Python does support large numbers, but it's not very fast for such > large numbers. There is a Python module called GMPY that uses the GMP > (Gnu Multiple Precision) library for faster operations on large > numbers.
As the author of gmpy, I'd like to point out that the speed difference isn't all that large, if all you're doing is ordinary arithmetic -- a few times at most (it can be better if you need some of GMP's functionality which gmpy exposes, such as primality testing). Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
