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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