why the inconsistency?

[Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou]

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 19:26:41 +0300, rumours say that Christos "TZOTZIOY"
Georgiou <tzot at sil-tec.gr> might have written:

>If only math.log(2**64)/math.log(10) worked with longs without
>converting them into floats first... :(

And after reading the FM, if only

def count_digits(x):
    return int(math.log(x, 10))

worked correctly for *all* large values, like 10**70...
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