On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Iftikhar Burhanuddin
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
mo
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.
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
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
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)
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