Prothon vs. Python integers

Peter Hickman peter at semantico.com
Tue May 25 05:25:49 EDT 2004


Mark Hahn wrote:
> Longs seemed like a needless exotic kludge to me in the 64-bit world. Surely
> once you get to 3.7e19 you are in floating point territory. I can't imagine
> counting anything up to 10**19.

Except all those sad people doing that thing called 'maths'.

Sorry but one of my requirements for a language is that is can handle integers of any size quickly and easily (and a good integer square root would be nice). However I always seem to 
end up coding with C and GMP.



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