On Jan 22, 2:17 pm, Carl Witty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 'Integer' is a Sage type. This means it has lots of useful
> mathematical convenience methods (like .is_square()), it participates
> in the coercion model, etc. Also, 'Integer' is implemented with GMP,
> and 'long' is not, so 'Integer' is much faster for large numbers.
Why does Python not use the GMP routines for long integers, if they
are so much faster?
Cheers,
Peter Doyle
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