Splitting numeric litterals

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Fri Jul 16 18:51:54 EDT 2010


> On 7/16/10 12:30 PM, bart.c wrote:

>> they have to be exact. So if you wanted to hardcode 1000! for some
>> reason, you'd
>> need some 2568 digits which is a little awkward on one line.

No, only 20 digits
 >>> math.factorial(1000)
402387260077093773543702433923003985719374 ...

Most big ints people want to work with can be encoded similarly.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy




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