[IronPython] IronPython and Big Numbers

[Bill Kinnersley]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dino Viehland" <dinov at exchange.microsoft.com>
To: "Discussion of IronPython" <users at lists.ironpython.com>
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 1:21 PM
Subject: Re: [IronPython] IronPython and Big Numbers


> Thanks for reporting this.  This is actually slightly different than the 
> bug described in the differences doc.  There we're actually just 
> preventing you from an inevitable OOM and here we're failing to do the 
> power which should succeed.
>
> This seems to work as long as the left hand side of the power operation is 
> a BigInt:
>
>>>> x = 10 ** 10
>>>> x ** 10
> 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000L
>>>> 10 ** x
> Number too big
>
This is not surprising, Dino.  The two results are not supposed to be the 
same. 10 ** x will be one followed by ten billion zeroes.  So I think 
"Number too big" is the right answer in the second case!