[issue10629] Arbitrary precision

[Georg Brandl]

Georg Brandl <georg at python.org> added the comment:

Note that while Python's long type gives you unlimited-size integers, the float type doesn't make such promises: it is just a double-precision float.  As such, math.factorial(1234) cannot be interpreted; it would simply be positive infinity.

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components: +Interpreter Core -Regular Expressions
nosy: +georg.brandl, mark.dickinson
resolution:  -> invalid
status: open -> pending

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