K.S.Sreeram wrote: > Raymond L. Buvel wrote: >> I just tried this and it is taking an extremely long time even on a fast >> machine with 4 Gb of RAM. Killed it after a couple of minutes. > > Thats odd. > 34564323**456356 completed on my laptop in 28 seconds. > [Python 2.4.3, Celeron-M 1.3GHz, WinXP], and max memory consumption > during the whole process was about 11megs. > > What python version are you using? > > Regards > Sreeram >
Sorry, I tripped over the display problem that Tim Peters has repeatedly explained on this news group (decimal algorithm is quadratic in the number of digits) :-( On a 64-bit 2.2 GHz Opteron running Debian stable, Python 2.3 took 26 seconds and Python 2.4 took 11 seconds. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
