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[Uwe Schmitt]

FREDRIK HULDTGREN <tdi01fhu at syd.kth.se> wrote:
| I want to generate random numbers, very large random numbers. If I use
| randrange() I get an out of bounds error since it only supports numbers
| up to (2**31)-1. However, I can use uniform(), but then I get the number
| returned in 7.9655120654553743e+018 or something simaler, and I would
| rather have it in a "L" format(796551206545537430183218312890381031L).
| How do I do this?

| thanx
| /Fredrik

You could generate two random numbers and clue them together to
a longer number.

there is a mp (multip precision) library at http://gmpy.sourceforge.net

Greetings, Uwe

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