@Tim Even in python an integer is automatically converted to long type but it cannot go further. And as sympy has a numbers class for other data types as well this can also be included. Wanted to build something similar to this http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/math/BigInteger.html.
On Wednesday, 5 March 2014 06:38:47 UTC+5:30, Ondřej Čertík wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Ambar Mehrotra > <ambar....@gmail.com<javascript:>> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am Ambar Mehrotra and undergraduate from BITS Pilani, India pursuing > > Information Systems. > > I like to play with numbers and have a descent experience with python. > > > > I would like to suggest the addition of a 'BigInteger' module in the > > sympy.core.numbers class. > > Currently there is no convenient way of storing and working with very > large > > numbers in python. I came across this problem while solving a question > of > > Google Code Jam where python ran out of memory while doing a long > > calculation. > > I would like to take user input in form of a string and then use > algorithms > > to do some basic math operations using numpy to make things faster. > > > > Please tell me if this idea is worth considering and guide me further if > you > > like it. > > SymPy can also use GMP through gmpy through mpmath, so that should be > able to handle any large integers. > > Can you post your code where you need large integers in Python that > runs out of memory? > > Ondrej > > > > > with regards, > > Ambar Mehrotra. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > "sympy" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an > > email to sympy+un...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to sy...@googlegroups.com<javascript:>. > > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/7ec24c8c-02d0-4e02-afb4-ca35a75207f5%40googlegroups.com. > > > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/7312fed9-2752-4de0-a9c1-9ddbd8b08767%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
