Going past the float size limits?

[J. Cliff Dyer]

jimmy.musselwhite at gmail.com wrote:
> Hello all
> It would be great if I could make a number that can go beyond current
> size limitations. Is there any sort of external library that can have
> infinitely huge numbers? Way way way way beyond say 5x10^350 or
> whatever it is?
>
> I'm hitting that "inf" boundary rather fast and I can't seem to work
> around it.
>
> Thanks!
>
>   
hmm.

Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Apr 18 2007, 08:51:08) [MSC v.1310 32 bit
(Intel)] on win32
<snip>
>>> 5 * (10 ** 700)
50000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000L


Do you really need more than 700 places of precision?  Once your numbers
are that large, surely you can use integer math, right? (FYI 5 * (10 **
10000) works just as well.

Cheers,
Cliff