On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Iftikhar Burhanuddin <burha...@math.ucla.edu> wrote: > This is on mod.math.washington.edu. > > burha...@mod:~$ uname -m > x86_64 > > E = 2^(10^10) > > works fine on the subsequent attempts. I wonder why the error on the first > attempt.
Perhaps there wasn't enough free RAM available on mod.math.washington.edu when you tried, due to other users. -- William > > On Sun, 5 Dec 2010, John Cremona wrote: > >> 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 >> > > -- > 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 > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.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
