From: Jason Roelofs <jameskilton@...>
Date: 2007-05-05T02:36:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Help with bigbnum

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You do realize the magnitude of number you're trying to calculate? There IS
a limit to how big even BigNum can go before deciding to crap out. I'd like
to see someone try this in Lisp. If that interpreter can't handle it, then
no language can.

Jason

On 5/4/07, Victor Reyes <victor.reyes@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am trying to use the following computation:  232582656(232582657-1)
>
> n = (2**32582656) * (2**32582657 - 1)
>
> I am getting the msg:
>
> perf.rb:5: warning: in a**b, b may be too big Infinity
>
> Any help will be appreciated.
>
> Thank you
>
> Victor
>

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