On a 64-bit machine I can compute 2^)10^10) with no trouble. On a 32-bit machine I get a more explicit error message than you reported:
RuntimeError: exponent must be at most 2147483647 which answers your question. Note that this number is 2^31-1, and that 10^10 is larger than that by a factor of about 4.6. John On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Iftikhar Burhanuddin <burha...@math.ucla.edu> wrote: > Please explain the reason for the error. Is the number too big? If so what > is the range of integer computability? > > Regards, > Ifti > > sage: E = 2^(10^10) > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > RuntimeError Traceback (most recent call last) > > /home/burhanud/sumhtlp/<ipython console> in <module>() > > RuntimeError: > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
