Integer multiplication overflow.

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <8rphoh129t3 at news1.newsguy.com>,
Alex Martelli <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>Python undecorated integers are fixnums (in scheme/lisp/fp terms) --
>32-bit signed fixnums (that's somewhat larger than a typical lisp's
 ^^^^^^
>implementation fixnums, a range of about +/- 2 billions).  

Wrong.  They're whatever the platform int gives you, which will be
64-bit in many cases -- and more all the time.
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