Problem with timeit

[Steve D'Aprano]

On Tue, 19 Dec 2017 02:27 am, ast wrote:

> I discovered that log functions from math module
> works with integers, whatever their size, there is
> no conversion to float.
> 
>> import math
>> x = 123456**123456
>> math.log10(x)
> 628577.7303641582   (instantaneous)
> 
> so 628578 digits


Nice!

It also works with other bases:

py> x = 10**1000000
py> math.log(x, 2)
3321928.0948873623
py> x.bit_length()
3321929


Today I learned. Thank you.



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Steve
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