[Tutor] A Million Sevens

[Chris Hengge]

Well, I dont get the point.. its not locking up my system or anything.. its
just crunching away... even while I type this...
I guess your point is that it should stop since a 32 bit O/S can only count
to:
4,294,967,296

On 11/17/06, Thomas <tavspam at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Earlier today I typed the following into my pythonwin interactive
> interpreter in windows xp:
>
> >>> int('7' * 10 ** 6)
>
>  I expected either an error message or it to get stuck and require me to
> stop the process manually.
>
>  I read that unlike long integers in C, longs in python are only limited
> by the amount of memory (and virtual memory) your system has.
>
> Can you guess what it did?
>
> I'm temped to end the post here, but I'm new to this list and its possible
> that people might be annoyed by me not getting to the point within my
> initial post, so here's what it did:
>
> It thought about it for about 2 seconds then restarted my pc! explanations
> welcome.
>
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