[Python-Dev] 64 bit units in PyLong

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Jul 5 15:33:23 EDT 2017


On 05/07/2017 20:05, Mark Dickinson wrote:

> Oh, and you'd have to rewrite the power algorithm, which currently
> depends on the size of a limb in bytes being a multiple of 5. :-)
> 

What is a limb, as my search foo has let me down?

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