[Python-ideas] Add the imath module

[George Leslie-Waksman]

Instead of `imath`, how about `math.integer` for the module name?

On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 9:20 AM Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote:

> [Steven D'Aprano]
>>  > about 4.7 seconds to test 2**800 + 1;
>>
>> [Jeroen Demeyer]
>>
>>> In SageMath:
>>>
>>> sage: n = 2**800+1; timeit('is_prime(n)')
>>> 625 loops, best of 3: 303 µs per loop
>>>
>>> That's 4 orders of magnitude faster...
>>
>>
> [Tim]
>
>> More like 6, yes?
>>
>
> Heh - sorry about that.  A speck of dirt on my monitor made me read '303"
> as "3.03".
>
>
>>   My Python version is more like 3, but is way fast enough for most
>> things I do:
>>
>
> So my Python Miller-Rabin code (already shared) was about one order of
> magnitude slower.
>  ...
>
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