From: Victor Reyes <victor.reyes@...>
Date: 2007-05-05T05:25:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Help with bigbnum

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For the record, I am running ruby 1.86 under AIX 5.3.
If the answer is that it can be done on Ruby, that's an OK answer also. If
this is the case, I start playing with Python, at least for this problem.

Thanks

Victor

On 5/4/07, Mark Day <mday@mac.com> wrote:
>
> On May 4, 2007, at 10:36 AM, Jason Roelofs wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Python 2.5 appears to have handled the expression easily enough (3-4
> seconds on my iMac Intel Core Duo).  Converting it to a string for
> display seems to be taking quite a long time, which isn't too
> surprising since it should have nearly 2 million decimal digits
> (according to log10(n)).
>
> -Mark
>
> > 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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