Entering a very large number

[Antoon Pardon]

On 23-03-18 14:01, ast wrote:
> Le 23/03/2018 à 13:43, Rustom Mody a écrit :
>> On Friday, March 23, 2018 at 5:46:56 PM UTC+5:30, ast wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I found this way to put a large number in
>>> a variable.
>>
>> What stops you from entering the number on one single (v long) line?
>
>
> It is not beautiful and not very readable. It is better to
> have a fixed number of digits per line (eg 50)

Numbers that large are not readable, no matter how you put then in your
code. Such a blob of digits just doesn't carry much meaning to humans.

What meaningful information from number can you easily retrieve from
representing the number in some kind of table form that you can't from
just writing the number on one line?

-- 
Antoon.